The purpose of Libporter is to simplify how C libraries are distributed, installed, and managed across projects. C remains one of the most important programming languages, but its package management story is still inconsistent and often inconvenient.
Libporter is an attempt to design a cleaner and more universal workflow for C dependencies, while also serving as a deep systems programming project.
Managing libraries in C often involves manual downloads, custom build steps, platform-specific package managers, and inconsistent project layouts. This project is meant to explore a better approach: a dedicated package manager that can make C development more practical and organized.
- Provide a simple package manager experience for C
- Standardize how packages are described and installed
- Support dependency resolution and version selection
- Make C library reuse easier across projects
- Keep the tool lightweight, transparent, and portable
- Install packages from remote sources
- Remove and update installed packages
- Search available packages
- Handle dependency trees
- Support version constraints
- Read package manifests
- Integrate with Git-based sources
- Enable reproducible installs through lockfiles
Libporter is in early development and currently serves as both a real tool idea and a personal learning project.
This project is being built to learn more about:
- systems programming
- command-line tooling
- package manager design
- dependency resolution
- metadata parsing
- C ecosystem tooling
The project is personal for now, but feedback and ideas are always welcome.
Not decided yet.