Top 13 C single-header-lib Projects

• webview

  68 12,005 8.5 C

  Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).

  

Project mention: Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-09

You can create the webview using each platforms native GUI toolkit and setup JS communication yourself OR you can use a lightweight library that does it for [1] (search its README for language "bindings").

[1] https://github.com/webview/webview

• nuklear

  62 8,515 8.3 C

  A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library (by Immediate-Mode-UI)

  

Project mention: Using Jolt with flecs & Dear ImGui: Game Physics Introspection | dev.to | 2024-04-17

Nuklear is an alternative Immediate GUI, also written in C.

• WorkOS

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• minimp3

  3 1,482 0.0 C

  Minimalistic MP3 decoder single header library

• cgltf

  9 1,373 6.7 C

  :diamond_shape_with_a_dot_inside: Single-file glTF 2.0 loader and writer written in C99

Project mention: Confused in terms of where to start with framework/technology etc. Need help picking between learning ShaderToy v/s OpenGL v/s WebGL | /r/GraphicsProgramming | 2023-06-20

If you want to go all the way, https://learnopengl.com/ is a favorite around here. You could build a glTF viewer from scratch starting from that tutorial and https://github.com/jkuhlmann/cgltf and eventually building towards https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.html or whatever wacky artsy direction you like.

• nbnet

  3 385 7.5 C

  single header C(99) library to implement client-server network code for games

Project mention: Networking and multiplayer | /r/raylib | 2023-04-28

There's examples and on YT theres some videos showing off the lib.

• msf_gif

  2 198 4.1 C

  A single-header animated GIF exporter

• buddy_alloc

  7 117 7.3 C

  A single header buddy memory allocator for C & C++

Project mention: buddy memory allocator - project update (2 years) | /r/C_Programming | 2023-06-12

If you need a sub-allocator with predictable performance feel free to give it a try. The code is here and it is licensed under the 0BSD license, making it as lax and as close to public domain as possible. Comments, issues and PRs are always welcomed and appreciated. Thanks!

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• dds-ktx

  1 110 1.9 C

  Single header "no-allocation" KTX/DDS file reader

• simple-opengl-loader

  4 81 0.0 C

  An extensible, cross-platform, single-header C/C++ OpenGL loader library.

• minivorbis

  1 59 0.0 C

  Single-file port of libogg and libvorbis for decoding ogg sound files.

• variation-ui

  4 20 1.6 C

  Single-header terminal user interface library. Written in ansi-c

• IncludeDB

  1 8 4.9 C

  Tiny key/value-store in a single, embeddable C file. For games, small servers, sbc, etc...

Project mention: Show HN: IncludeDB – A simple, single header C database library | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-09

• variation-lite-ui

  1 2 3.4 C

  Single-header terminal user interface library. Written in ansi-c

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• Networking and multiplayer
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• Handmade Math A simple math library for games and computer graphics
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2023
• CLib: Header-only C library that implements the most important classes from GLib
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jan 2023
• Making UI Library (OpenGL) in your engine
  2 projects | /r/gameenginedevs | 17 Dec 2022
• Nuklear – A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
  1 project | /r/hypeurls | 23 Dec 2022
• A note from our sponsor - WorkOS
  workos.com | 25 Apr 2024

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