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andrewl-hn on May 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Clib: Package manager for C

James Halliday a while ago wrote a package system for C based on npm - a node package system: https://github.com/substack/dotc#dotc

The machinery behind it is surprisingly simple. You have 2 pre-processor commands: #require and #exports and you use them to build up a hierarchy of dependencies.

e12e on May 19, 2014 [–]

Interesting. Not sure how I feel about the requirment to use c++ features for a c package manager though...

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