libr

Opinionated public domain C snippets and helpers, bundled as a single-file library.

Select a few modules: from the list below or run bundle -l to list the available modules. For instance with the fail and logging modules:

./bundle --output=r.h fail logging

Then hello.c can check for errors and do logging:

#define LIBR_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "r.h"

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    if(argc != 2) {
        failwith("incorrect number of arguments: %d != 2", argc);
    }

    info("hello %s world!", argv[1]);

    int r = close(0);
    CHECK(r, "close(%d)", 0);

    void* buf = malloc(4096); CHECK_MALLOC(buf);

    return 0;
}

which when built and run:

gcc -DLOG_LEVEL=LOG_INFO -o hello hello.c
./hello libr

says hello:

20230906T105013Z:1530871:main:hello.c:10 hello libr world!

In your project's Makefile:

LIBR = fail logging
r.h:
	wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rootmos/libr/refs/heads/master/bundle | python - --clone --output=$@ $(LIBR)

• base32: implementation of the RFC4648 Base32 encoding
  .h .c .test.c reference
• char: helpers to interpret ASCII characters
  .h
• crc: implementation of CRC16-ccitt
  .h .c .test.c wiki
• devnull: /dev/null as a filedescriptor
  .h .c man
• env: getenv wrappers
  .h .c man
• fail: abort-based error handling
  .h .c man
• file: read file line-by-line or as a whole
  .h .c
• hex: hexadecimal binary encoding
  .h .c .test.c
• hexdump: hexdump troubleshooting utility
  .h .c
• landlock: Linux landlock syscall wrappers and helpers
  .h .c reference man
• logging: compiletime eliminated printf-style logging
  .h .c
• lua: Lua error checking and stack helpers
  .h .c reference
• mark: realtime frequency calculation
  .h .c
• no_new_privs: prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS) helper
  .h .c reference man
• nonblock: helper to set/unset O_NONBLOCK flag
  .h .c man
• now: current time in ISO8601 format
  .h .c wiki
• path: path mangling
  .h .c .test.c
• rlimit: apply strict rlimits
  .h .c man
• seccomp: seccomp syscall wrapper
  .h .c reference man
• sha1: SHA-1 implementation
  .h .c .test.c wiki reference
• sha2: SHA-2 implementation
  .h .c .test.c wiki reference
• stopwatch: pausable realtime frequency calculation
  .h .c
• str: string helpers
  .h .c .test.c
• test: test utilities
  .h .c
• util: LENGTH, LIT, MAX, MIN macros
  .h
• uv: uv error-checking
  .h reference
• xdg: XDG base directories
  .h .c reference
• xorshift: implementation of xorshift64 and xorshift128+
  .h .c .test.c wiki