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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.
  • LCC - A Retargetable Compiler for ANSI C. Nonfree (but liberal) license. License.
  • 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.

Crypto

Database

This lists databases and data stores with C APIs.

  • Hiredis - A minimalistic client library for Redis. 3-clause BSD.
  • LMDB - An ultra-fast, ultra-compact key-value embedded data store. newOpenLDAP.
  • MariaDB - A robust, scalable and reliable SQL server, designed to be a drop-in replacement for MySQL. 3-clause BSD.
  • PostgreSQL - A powerful object-relational database system. PostgreSQL licence
  • 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.

Frameworks

This section has big libraries that provide data structures and other stuff you expect of a 'modern' standard library.

  • APR - Apache Portable Runtime; another library of cross-platform utility functions. Apache2.0.
  • C Algorithms - A collection of common algorithms and data structures for C. ISC.
  • EFL - A large collection of useful data structures and functions. Various licenses, all free.
  • GLib - A library of utility functions and structures, designed to be portable, efficient and powerful. 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.
  • stb - A range of single-file libraries for C. Public domain.

Game Programming

  • Allegro - A cross-platform, video game development and multimedia library. zlib.
  • Corange - A game engine in pure C. FreeBSD.
  • CSFML - A binding for SFML in C. zlib.
  • FreeGLUT - An alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit. Allows the creation and management of windows with OpenGL contexts. X11.
  • GLFW - A multi-platform library for creating windows with OpenGL contexts. zlib.
  • ioquake3 - The Quake3 engine, freed at last. GNU GPL2.1
  • 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.

Graphics

  • Cogl - A GPU graphics and utilities API. GNU LGPL2.1.
  • Clutter - A UI library based on OpenGL. GNU LGPL2.1.
  • libjpeg - A library for reading and writing JPEG files. Free software license (check the source).
  • libjpeg-turbo - A faster library for reading and writing JPEG files. Various licences.
  • libxmi - A function library for rasterizing 2D vector graphics. GNU GPL3.
  • mozjpeg - An improved JPEG encoder. 3-clause BSD.
  • OpenGL - The industry standard for high-performance graphics, with a native C binding. Various licenses.
  • SDL2 - Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. zlib

Graphical User Interface

These are specifically widget toolkits.

JSON

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

Learning, Reference and Tutorials

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

Online

Reference

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Self-study courses

Physical

Reference

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Multimedia

Networking and Internet

Numerical

  • apophenia - A library for statistical and scientific computing. GNU GPL2.1 with some exceptions.
  • ATLAS - Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software. 3-clause BSD.
  • BLAS - Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms; a set of routines that provide vector and matrix operations. BLAS license
  • FFTW - The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West; a highly-optimized fast Fourier transform routine. GNU GPL2.1.
  • GLPK - GNU Linear Programming Kit; a package designed for solving large-scale linear programming, mixed integer programming and other related problems. GNU GPL3.
  • GMP - GNU Multple Precision Arithmetic Library; a library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic. GNU GPL2.1 and GNU LGPL2.1.
  • GNU MPC - A library for complex number arithmetic. GNU LGPL3.
  • GNU MPFR - A library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic. GNU LGPL2.1.
  • GNU MPRIA - A portable mathematics library for multi-precision rational interval arithmetic. GNU GPL3.
  • GSL - The GNU Scientific Library; a sophisticated numerical library. GNU GPL3.
  • KISS FFT - A very simple fast Fourier transform library. 3-clause BSD.
  • LAPACKE - A C interface to LAPACK. 3-clause BSD.
  • Yeppp! - Very fast, SIMD-optimized mathematical library. 3-clause BSD.

Parallel Programming

  • OpenMP - A set of C pragmas designed to allow for easy parallelization of code. Standard (licensing not applicable).
  • pth - A portable implementation for non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution. GNU GPL3.
  • pthreads - The POSIX thread library. Standard (no license applicable).
  • TinyCThread - A portable, small implementation of the C11 threads API. zlib.

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.

Serialization

  • c-capnproto - An implementation of the Cap'n Proto serialization protocol. Expat.
  • libavro - A C implementation of the Avro data serialization system. Apache2.0.
  • msgpackalt - A simple, light and fast binary serialization library. 3-clause BSD.
  • protobuf-c - An implementation of Google Protocol Buffer in C. FreeBSD.
  • xdr - External Data Representation; a standard for data serialization. Standard (no license applicable).

Source Code Collections

This contains collections of small source code. If you want something big and integrated, check the Frameworks section.

  • CCAN - Modelled after Perl's CPAN, this is a big collection of C code that does stuff. The full list is here. Various licenses (all free software).
  • clib - Something of a package manager for C. Comes with a bunch of libraries of its own. Expat.
  • gnulib - A collection of common GNU code. GNU GPL3.
  • ulib - Another collection of source code. Expat.

Standard Libraries

This contains standard C libraries.

  • Bionic - Google's C standard library, developed for Android. 3-clause BSD
  • dietlibc - A C standard library designed for the smallest possible binaries. GNU GPL2.1.
  • glibc - The GNU C Library; an implementation of the C standard library. GNU LGPL3.
  • musl - A standard C library, compatible with POSIX 2008 and C11. Designed for static linking. Expat.

Testing

Text Editor Extensions

While practically any decent programmer's text editor supports C, there are some extensions that make it more pleasant. This is categorized by editor.

Emacs

  • Flycheck - Modern syntax checking. For C, it can use either GCC or Clang as a back-end. GNU GPL3.
  • Yasnippet - A template system, with C templates for common code snippets. GNU GPL3.

Vim

Tools

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

  • aimake - A build tool designed to avoid complex configurations. GNU GPL3.
  • c99sh - Run C files using hash-bang. FreeBSD.
  • GDB - The GNU Project debugger; a debugger for C. GNU GPL3.
  • gprof - A performance analysis tool. Part of GNU binutils. GNU GPL3.
  • libtool - A generic library support script. GNU GPL3.
  • rr - A debugger that records non-deterministic executions to allow for deterministic debugging. FreeBSD.
  • 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.

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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