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    Lightweight ring buffer manager

    Lightweight ring buffer manager

    Lightweight generic ring buffer manager library

    The library provides generic FIFO ring buffer implementation.
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    Gramine

    Gramine

    A library OS for Linux multi-process applications

    Gramine is a lightweight library-operating system (Library OS) designed to run unmodified Linux applications with minimal dependencies on the host OS, and to offer enhanced isolation and portability. It was formerly known as Graphene, but the project renamed to Gramine to avoid naming conflicts and to reflect its broader ambition beyond the original research prototype.
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    CrossDB

    CrossDB

    Ultra High-performance Lightweight Embedded and Server OLTP RDBMS

    CrossDB is a ultra high-performance, lightweight embedded and server OLTP RDBMS. It is designed for high-performance scenarios where the main memory can hold the entire database.
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    Riley's Graphics library FrameWork

    Riley's Graphics library FrameWork

    A cross platform lightweight single-header simple-to-use library

    RGFW (Really Good Framework) is a lightweight, C-based windowing and input library designed to be a minimal alternative to frameworks like GLFW or SDL. It supports OpenGL context creation, input handling, and simple file dialogs while staying highly portable and dependency-free. RGFW is ideal for developers who want tight control over their environment or want to build cross-platform applications with a tiny footprint. It’s particularly suited to educational, experimental, or embedded...
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    OpenCorePkg

    OpenCorePkg

    OpenCore bootloader

    OpenCorePkg is an open-source, modular UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootloader and development framework, primarily designed to enable macOS booting on non-Apple hardware (Hackintosh). It includes Apple-specific UEFI drivers, utilities for macOS installation support, and shared libraries used across Acidanthera projects. Apple disk image loading support. Apple keyboard input aggregation. Apple PE image signature verification. Apple UEFI secure boot supplemental code. Audio...
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    libjuice

    libjuice

    JUICE is a UDP Interactive Connectivity Establishment library

    libjuice is a lightweight C library implementing the ICE (Interactive Connectivity Establishment) protocol, facilitating peer-to-peer connectivity through NAT traversal. It's particularly useful for applications requiring direct UDP communication, such as VoIP or real-time media streaming, where establishing a direct connection between peers is essential.​
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    SDL

    SDL

    Simple DirectMedia Layer

    SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a cross-platform multimedia development library designed to provide low-level access to hardware components such as graphics, audio, input devices, and system resources, making it a foundational tool for building games, emulators, and interactive applications. It abstracts platform-specific functionality into a consistent API, allowing developers to write code once and deploy it across multiple operating systems including Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and...
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    ToaruOS

    ToaruOS

    Hobby operating system, bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library

    ToaruOS is a "complete" operating system for x86-64 PCs and experimental support for ARMv8. While many independent, hobby, and research OSes aim to experiment with new designs, ToaruOS is intended as an educational resource, providing a representative microcosm of functionality found in major desktop operating systems. The OS includes a kernel, bootloader, dynamic shared object linker, C standard library, its own composited windowing system, a dynamic bytecode-compiled programming language,...
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    Intel(R) RDT Software Package

    Intel(R) RDT Software Package

    User space software for Intel(R) Resource Director Technology

    Intel CMT CAT is a user-space software package providing support for Intel's Resource Director Technology (RDT). It offers tools and libraries to monitor and control cache allocation and memory bandwidth.​
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    Curl

    Curl

    Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs

    ...Curl is feature-rich, thread-safe, well supported and fast. It is also highly portable and works on numerous platforms, including Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Darwin, UnixWare, HURD, BeOS, Ultrix, QNX, DOS, Symbian, and many more.
    Downloads: 35 This Week
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    libirecovery

    libirecovery

    Library and utility to talk to iBoot/iBSS via USB on Mac OS X, Windows

    A cross-platform FOSS library is written in C to communicate with iOS devices natively. The libirecovery library allows communication with iBoot/iBSS of iOS devices via USB.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    LVGL

    LVGL

    Powerful and easy-to-use embedded GUI library with many widgets

    Powerful and easy-to-use embedded GUI library with many widgets, advanced visual effects (opacity, antialiasing, animations), and low memory requirements (16K RAM, 64K Flash). LVGL provides everything you need to create an embedded GUI with easy-to-use graphical elements, beautiful visual effects, and a low memory footprint. LVGL is an open-source graphics library providing everything you need to create an embedded GUI with easy-to-use graphical elements, beautiful visual effects, and a low...
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    Vanilla.PDF

    Vanilla.PDF

    Cross-platform SDK for creating and modifying PDF documents

    Vanilla.PDF is a modern, high-performance, open-source C++17 SDK designed for creating, editing, signing, and analyzing PDF documents across multiple platforms. It requires no external runtime dependencies, making it lightweight and ideal for embedding into desktop applications, servers, or automation pipelines. The SDK offers full cross-platform support including Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android, with builds available for major compilers and architectures. Vanilla.PDF supports advanced PDF features such as adding CMS (PKCS#7) digital signatures, modifying content streams and metadata, and working with encryption and permissions based on standard PDF security models. ...
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    PortableGL

    PortableGL

    An implementation of OpenGL 3.x-ish in clean C

    PortableGL is a single-header, software-only implementation of a subset of OpenGL (specifically the GL 2.1 pipeline), designed to run entirely on the CPU. This lightweight graphics library allows OpenGL-style rendering without GPU acceleration, making it ideal for educational use, debugging, embedded systems, and retro-style software rendering. Because it mirrors OpenGL syntax and design, it can act as a drop-in CPU renderer for testing or deploying 3D graphics on platforms without GPU support.
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    MicroQuickJS

    MicroQuickJS

    Public repository of the Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine

    MicroQuickJS (MQuickJS) is a compact JavaScript engine designed specifically for embedded systems where memory and storage are extremely limited. Its primary goal is to compile and run JavaScript programs using minimal RAM, making it suitable for microcontrollers and constrained devices that cannot host a full-featured runtime. The engine is intentionally small in ROM footprint while still providing practical performance comparable to lightweight desktop-grade embeddable engines in its...
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    Dunst

    Dunst

    Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

    Dunst is a lightweight replacement for the notification daemons provided by most desktop environments. It’s very customizable, isn’t dependent on any toolkits, and therefore fits into those window manager-centric setups we all love to customize to perfection. Customize fonts, icons, timeouts, and more. Are you unhappy with the default shortcuts and colors? No worries, you can change these all with a simple configuration file tweak. Change the look or behavior of notifications matching a...
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    libfabric

    libfabric

    AWS Libfabric

    The Open Fabrics Interfaces (OFI) is a framework focused on exporting fabric communication services to applications. Libfabric pre-built binaries may be available from other sources, such as Linux distributions. Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) is a network interface for Amazon EC2 instances that enables customers to run applications requiring high levels of inter-node communications at scale on AWS. Its custom-built operating system (OS) bypass hardware interface enhances the performance of inter-instance communications, which is critical to scaling these applications. ...
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    MLX42

    MLX42

    Codam's own fixed, functioning alternative of the miniLibX

    MLX42 is a modern C graphics and windowing library built on top of GLFW and inspired by the original MLX library used in 42 school projects. It aims to provide a higher-level, beginner-friendly abstraction for students learning about graphical programming, while also embracing modern practices like event-driven input, texture rendering, and transparency. MLX42 is structured to reduce boilerplate and simplify the creation of games or interactive applications in C, making it an excellent...
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    MATIO

    MATIO

    MATLAB MAT File I/O Library

    MATLAB MAT file I/O library. Matio is an open-source C library for reading and writing binary MATLAB MAT files. This library is designed for use by programs/libraries that do not have access or do not want to rely on MATLAB's shared libraries.
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    librg

    librg

    Making multi-player gamedev simpler since 2017

    Making multi-player game dev simpler since 2017. Single-header cross-platform world replication in pure C99. librg is a lightweight library that serves as a middleware between data-transferring libraries (networking, file-streaming, etc.) and core application/game logic. The library was born to solve the complexities of setting up and managing the flow of multi-player games and dedicated game servers. It came a long way in stripping out things that were non-essential, slowly sculpting into...
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    AWS IoT Jobs library

    AWS IoT Jobs library

    Client library for using AWS IoT Jobs service on embedded devices

    The AWS IoT Jobs library helps you notify connected IoT devices of a pending Job. A Job can be used to manage your fleet of devices, update firmware and security certificates on your devices, or perform administrative tasks such as restarting devices and performing diagnostics. It interacts with the AWS IoT Jobs service using MQTT, a lightweight publish-subscribe protocol. This library provides a convenience API to compose and recognize the MQTT topic strings used by the Jobs service. The...
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    libusbmuxd

    libusbmuxd

    A client library to multiplex connections from and to iOS devices

    A client library for applications to handle usbmux protocol connections with iOS devices. This project is a client library to multiplex connections from and to iOS devices alongside command-line utilities. It is primarily used by applications that use the libimobiledevice library to communicate with services running on iOS devices. The library does not establish a direct connection with a device but requires connecting to a socket provided by the usbmuxd daemon. The libimobiledevice project...
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    microui

    microui

    A tiny immediate-mode UI library

    microui is a tiny immediate-mode user interface library designed for developers who want a minimal UI foundation without a heavy framework. It follows the immediate-mode pattern, where the interface is rebuilt each frame from application state instead of being stored as a large retained widget tree. The project is intentionally small and gives developers room to add their own controls, rendering backends, and interaction patterns. It is especially useful for tools, games, editors, embedded...
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    Unikraft

    Unikraft

    A next-generation cloud native kernel designed to unlock performance

    Unikraft powers the next generation of cloud-native, containerless applications by enabling you to radically customize and build custom OS/kernels; unlocking best-in-class performance, security primitives, and efficiency savings. Unikraft optimizes resource utilization, leading to smaller footprints (meaning higher server saturation) and improved efficiency in resource-constrained environments. Unikraft is an open-source project driven by a vibrant community of over 100 developers, fostering...
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    FSP - File Service Protocol Suite

    UDP File transfer protocol

    FSP - File Service Protocol. FSP is lightweight UDP based protocol for transferring files. It is designed for anonymous transfers over unreliable networks.
    Downloads: 17 This Week
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