installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%

brew install clib

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%

sudo port install clib

MacPorts ports tree · devel/clib/Portfile · Source: api.github.com

Linux

Nixvérifié · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#clib

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/cl/clib/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Package manager for C programming

Liens du projet

Commandes et alias

clib
clib-build
clib-configure
clib-init
clib-install
clib-search
clib-uninstall
clib-update
clib-upgrade

historique

Historique du projet et usages

clib is a package manager for the C programming language, built around small standalone C libraries and a `clib.json` manifest.

Historique du projet

The clib GitHub repository was created in October 2012 and presents the project as a package manager for C. The README describes it as a way to promote small C utilities, improve discovery, and avoid pulling large frameworks into C projects.

clib's project model expects packages to describe themselves with `clib.json`, including fields such as name, version, repo, description, keywords, license, sources, and install commands. The wiki package listing acts as the registry and feeds `clib-search`.

Historique d'adoption

The README documents installation through Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, and source builds on Ubuntu and Fedora, showing packaging across both macOS package managers and Unix-like source workflows.

GitHub repository metadata showed thousands of stars at research time, and the project has continued publishing 2.x releases through 2024. That combination makes it one of the more recognizable attempts to give C a lightweight package-manager workflow.

Modes d'utilisation

clib is used to initialize projects, install dependencies, update or uninstall packages, configure and build dependencies, and search the registry. The README recommends checking fetched files into the consuming repository so end users and contributors do not need clib installed.

Common commands include `clib install clibs/ms clibs/commander`, installing packages into `./deps` or another output directory, and using `clib.json` to describe both libraries and executables.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

clib is significant because C has no single dominant package manager comparable to npm or Cargo. clib's deliberately small model, GitHub-centered registry, vendored source expectation, and manifest format capture a practical answer to C's fragmented library-discovery problem.

For package nerds, clib sits in the lineage of language package managers but keeps C's cultural preference for source files, makefiles, and minimal runtime assumptions. Its Homebrew/MacPorts/Nix availability also made it easy to try without adopting a whole new platform.

Chronologie

2012: The GitHub repository is created.
2017: GitHub release metadata records clib 1.8.1.
2023: GitHub release metadata records clib 2.8.3 and 2.8.5.
2024: GitHub release metadata records clib 2.8.7.

Related projects

The clibs GitHub organization and clib wiki package list are related because the README describes them as the package registry.
Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix are related distribution channels documented by the README and input package metadata.
libcurl is a build dependency named by the README.

Sources

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : orange

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

Classificateur de risque

risque orange · confiance moyen · infrastructure

Pourquoi

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

Signaux

text:package manager

Comportement d'installation

Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 10 plateformes.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ./clib.json

exécutables

Exécutables installés

Commande	Type	Exposition
`clib`	cli	exécutable global
`clib-build`	cli	exécutable global
`clib-configure`	cli	exécutable global
`clib-init`	cli	exécutable global
`clib-install`	cli	exécutable global
`clib-search`	cli	exécutable global
`clib-uninstall`	cli	exécutable global
`clib-update`	cli	exécutable global
`clib-upgrade`	cli	exécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-09

version du gestionnaire2.8.7

gestionnaire mis à jour

données localesOK

amontà jour

dernière version détectée2.8.7

https://github.com/clibs/clib

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquet	brew:clib
Version	2.8.7
Gestionnaire de paquets	Homebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquets	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/clib
Page d'accueil	https://github.com/clibs/clib
Dépôt	https://github.com/clibs/clib
Docs amont	https://github.com/clibs/clib#readme
Licence	MIT
Archive source	https://github.com/clibs/clib/archive/refs/tags/2.8.7.tar.gz
Bibliothèques fournies par macOS	curl
Bouteille	disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrew	non défini
Service	aucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	clib
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Nix95%

clib

nix profile install nixpkgs#clib

normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Clib

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cl/clib/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

MacPorts95%

clib

sudo port install clib

normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Clib

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: devel/clib/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

graphe de paquets

Les liens viennent du graphe local de relations entre paquets, des suppléments, des dépendances, des correspondances d'écosystèmes et de l'appartenance aux hubs.

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/clib.yml

Sources utilisées

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

Installer clib avec Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix