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Awesome C

A curated list of C good stuff. I give preference to free software for code, and sellers who aren't evil for physical resources.

This is released under the GNU Free Documentation License - its text is provided in the LICENSE file.

Compilers

  • Clang - A C compiler for LLVM. Supports C11. NCSA.
  • GCC - Provides a C compiler as part of its compiler set. Supports C11 and OpenMP. GNU GPL3.
  • PCC - A very old C compiler. Supports C99. Various licenses
  • TCC - Tiny C Compiler; a small, fast C compiler. Supports C99 (except complex types). GNU GPL2.1.

Database

  • leveldb - A simple persistent key-value store. Available via clib. 3-clause BSD.
  • MariaDB - A robust, scalable and reliable SQL server, designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. 3-clause BSD.
  • Redis - An advanced key-value store. 3-clause BSD.
  • SQLite - A self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine with a C interface. Public domain.
  • UnQLite - A self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL engine with a C interface. FreeBSD.

Editors

These are specifically fancier, IDE-type editors. If you want a programmer's text editor, and yours doesn't support C, I'd be quite surprised.

Game Programming

  • CSFML - A binding for SFML in C. zlib.
  • Allegro - A cross-platform, video game development and multimedia library. zlib.
  • SDL - A cross-platform library designed to provide low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick and graphics hardware via OpenGL. zlib.

Generic Programming

  • klib - Small and lightweight implementations of common algorithms and data structures. Expat.
  • SGLIB - Simple Generic Library; an implementation of a range of generic programming structures and idioms in C. GNU GPL3.

Graphical User Interface

These are specifically widget toolkits.

JSON

  • Jannson - A C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON. Expat.
  • WJElement - Advanced JSON manipulation library, with support for JSON Schema. GNU GPL3.
  • YAJL - A fast C JSON streaming parser library. ISC

Learning and Tutorials

This is a list of resources for learning C programming in general, or something useful relating to C programming.

Online

Physical

Multimedia

  • FFMPEG - A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. GNU LGPL2.1, with some parts under GNU GPL2.1.
  • lodepng - A simple PNG image decoder and encoder, requiring no other dependencies. 3-clause BSD.

Networking and Internet

Numerical

  • FFTW - The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West; a highly-optimized fast Fourier transform routine. GNU GPL2.1.
  • GMP - GNU Multple Precision Arithmetic Library; a library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic. GNU GPL2.1 and GNU LGPL2.1.
  • GSL - The GNU Scientific Library; a sophisticated numerical library. GNU GPL3.
  • KISS FFT - A very simple fast Fourier transform library. 3-clause BSD.
  • Yeppp! - Very fast, SIMD-optimized mathematical library. 3-clause BSD.

Package Manager

Parallel Programming

  • OpenMP - A set of C pragmas designed to allow for easy parallelization of code. Standard (licensing not applicable).

Regex

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions'. Now they have two problems." - Jamie Zawinski.

  • PCRE - An implementation of regexes identical to that of Perl 5. 3-clause BSD.
  • SLRE - Super Light Regular Expression library; a very small implementation of a subset of Perl regex syntax. GNU GPL2.1.
  • TRE - A POSIX-compliant, feature-full regex library. FreeBSD.
  • T-Rex - Another tiny regex library. zlib.

Standard Libraries

This includes both C standard library implementations and libraries seeking to provide most of what a 'modern' standard library would have (containers, string processing, etc).

  • APR - Apache Portable Runtime; another library of cross-platform utility functions. Apache2.0.
  • Bionic - Google's C standard library, developed for Android. 3-clause BSD
  • C Algorithms - A collection of common algorithms and data structures for C. ISC.
  • dietlibc - A C standard library designed for the smallest possible binaries. GNU GPL2.1.
  • GLib - A library of utility functions and structures, designed to be portable, efficient and powerful. GNU LGPL3.
  • glibc - The GNU C Library; an implementation of the C standard library. GNU LGPL3.
  • GIO - A modern and easy-to-use VFS API. GNU LGPL3.
  • GObject - An object-oriented system and object model for C. GNU LGPL3.
  • libnih - A lightweight library of C functions and structures. GNU GPL2.1.
  • libU - A small library of basic utilities, including memory allocation, string manipulation and logging. 3-clause BSD.
  • musl - A standard C library, compatible with POSIX 2008 and C11. Designed for static linking. Expat.

Testing

Tools

This is a list of useful programs to help you write and debug C code which are not editors, libraries or compilers.

  • GDB - The GNU Project debugger; a debugger for C. GNU GPL3.
  • gprof - A performance analysis tool. Part of GNU binutils. GNU GPL3.
  • Valgrind - A range of dynamic analysis tools, including a leak checker. GNU GPL2.1.

Utilities

This is a 'catch-all' category for anything that doesn't fit well anywhere else.

  • ICU - International Components for Unicode; a library for Unicode support. ICU license.
  • libPhenom - An eventing framework for building high-scalability and high-performance systems. Apache2.0.
  • libuv - Cross-platform asynchronous I/O. Expat.
  • Ragel - A DSL for state machines that compiles to C. GNU GPL3.
  • SDS - Simple Dynamic Strings; a library for handling C strings in a simpler way, but one that is compatible with normal C string functions. Available via clib. FreeBSD.

XML

"XML is crap. Really. There are no excuses. XML is nasty to parse for humans, and it's a disaster to parse even for computers. There's just no reason for that horrible crap to exist." - Linus Torvalds

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