Top 23 single-header-lib Open-Source Projects

• webview

  68 12,048 8.4 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 8,577 8.5 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.

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• awesome-hpp

  6 3,203 6.2

  A curated list of awesome header-only C++ libraries

• indicators

  3 2,839 2.6 C++

  Activity Indicators for Modern C++

• tabulate

  1 1,806 6.0 C++

  Table Maker for Modern C++ (by p-ranav)

• lua-protobuf

  2 1,677 5.6 Lua

  A Lua module to work with Google protobuf

• cr

  5 1,488 0.0 C++

  cr.h: A Simple C Hot Reload Header-only Library

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• minimp3

  3 1,499 0.0 C

  Minimalistic MP3 decoder single header library

• cgltf

  9 1,383 6.5 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.

• nanobench

  13 1,320 0.0 C++

  Simple, fast, accurate single-header microbenchmarking functionality for C++11/14/17/20

Project mention: The issue of unit tests and performance measurements (Benchmark) | /r/cpp | 2023-05-27

An alternative is tracking the number of instructions a test executes: https://github.com/martinus/nanobench

• matchit.cpp

  7 519 0.0 C++

  match(it): A lightweight single-header pattern-matching library for C++17 with macro-free APIs.

• csv2

  1 518 4.3 C++

  Fast CSV parser and writer for Modern C++

• structopt

  3 450 0.0 C++

  Parse command line arguments by defining a struct (by p-ranav)

• nbnet

  3 387 7.2 C

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

• imgui_entt_entity_editor

  1 210 3.0 C++

  A drop-in entity editor for EnTT with Dear ImGui

• msf_gif

  2 198 4.1 C

  A single-header animated GIF exporter

• rapidobj

  5 161 5.9 C++

  A fast, header-only, C++17 library for parsing Wavefront .obj files.

• buddy_alloc

  7 121 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!

• dds-ktx

  1 111 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.

• Heady

  3 41 0.0 C++

  A utility for creating amalgamated single-header C++ libraries

• bit_set

  1 40 8.9 C++

  Rebooting the std::bitset franchise

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• Handmade Math A simple math library for games and computer graphics

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• Nuklear – A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library

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