clib を Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix でインストール

プロジェクトリンク

• ホームページ
• 上流ドキュメント
• パッケージマネージャページ

コマンドとエイリアス

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

プロジェクトの歴史

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`.

採用の歴史

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.

使われ方

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.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

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.

タイムライン

• 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.

ソース

• https://github.com/clibs/clib#readme
• https://api.github.com/repos/clibs/clib
• https://api.github.com/repos/clibs/clib/releases