Many modern-day languages like Python and Rust have their own standard package managers that help with installing dependencies for projects. C never had one... until now.

CLibs is a package manager for C that is focused on "micro" libraries. This means all libraries you can install with CLibs are lightweight, fast, and have a small footprint in your overall projects.

Getting Started

To install CLibs, enter in the following commands into your preferred terminal:

git clone https://github.com/clibs/clib.git /tmp/clib
cd /tmp/clib
make
sudo make install

Make sure you have the developer version of libcurl installed on your system.

Searching for the package you need is easy.

clib search [package-name]

Installing is also easy.

clib install <user>/<repo>

You can install more than one package at a time.

Integrating with CLibs

Maybe you're convinced that CLibs is the package manager for C and you would like to get your project to become supported by CLibs.

The way CLibs was created in mind, this is extremely simple to do. Create a package.json file at the root directory of your project. A template would like something like the following:

{
  "name": "term",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "repo": "clibs/term",
  "description": "Terminal ansi escape goodies",
  "keywords": ["terminal", "term", "tty", "ansi", "escape", "colors", "console"],
  "license": "MIT",
  "src": ["src/term.c", "src/term.h"]
}

For more details on package.json: https://github.com/clibs/clib/wiki/Explanation-of-package.json

Now that you know a package manager exists for C, will you add support for CLibs?

Github repository for CLibs: https://github.com/clibs/clib