@ -4,100 +4,99 @@ In addition to all of [my libraries](https://github.com/nothings/stb), there are
People have told me about quite a few of these. However, I haven't used most of these libraries
and can't comment on their quality. (If you use them and aren't their author, feel
free to tell me about their quality.) _Newest additions are in italics._
- **images** [jo_gif.cpp ](http://www.jonolick.com/home/gif-writer ): animated GIF writer (public domain)
- **images** [gif.h ](https://github.com/ginsweater/gif-h ): animated GIF writer (public domain)
- **images** [tiny_jpeg.h ](https://github.com/serge-rgb/TinyJPEG/blob/master/tiny_jpeg.h ): JPEG encoder (public domain)
- **images** [miniexr ](https://github.com/aras-p/miniexr ): OpenEXR writer (public domain)
- **geometry** [nv_voronoi.h ](http://www.icculus.org/~mordred/nvlib/ ): find voronoi regions on lattice w/ integer inputs (public domain)
- **geometry** [sobol.h ](https://github.com/Marc-B-Reynolds/Stand-alone-junk/blob/master/src/SFH/Sobol.h ): sobol & stratified sampling sequences (public domain)
- **network** [zed_net ](https://github.com/ZedZull/zed_net ): cross-platform socket wrapper (public domain)
- **strings** ; **files & filenames** [DG_misc.h ](https://github.com/DanielGibson/Snippets/ ): Daniel Gibson's stb.h-esque cross-platform helpers: path/file, strings (public domain)
- **strings** [utf8 ](https://github.com/sheredom/utf8.h ): utf8 string library (public domain)
- **strings** [strpool.h ](https://github.com/mattiasgustavsson/libs ): string interning (public domain/MIT)
- **misc** [MakeID.h ](http://www.humus.name/3D/MakeID.h ): allocate/deallocate small integer IDs efficiently (public domain)
- **misc** [gb_string.h ](https://github.com/gingerBill/gb ): dynamic strings for C (public domain)
- **misc** [loguru ](https://github.com/emilk/loguru ): flexible logging for C++ (public domain)
- **hardware** [EasyTab ](https://github.com/ApoorvaJ/EasyTab ): multi-platform tablet input (public domain)
Not public domain:
- **images** [tinyexr ](https://github.com/syoyo/tinyexr ): EXR image read/write (BSD license) *uses miniz internally*
- **images** [lodepng ](http://lodev.org/lodepng/ ): PNG encoder/decoder (zlib license)
- **images** [nanoSVG ](https://github.com/memononen/nanosvg ): 1-file SVG parser; 1-file SVG rasterizer (zlib license)
- **3D** [tinyobjloader ](https://github.com/syoyo/tinyobjloader ): wavefront OBJ file loader (BSD license)
- **2D** [blendish ](https://bitbucket.org/duangle/oui-blendish/src ): blender-style widget rendering (MIT license)
- **math** [mm_vec.h ](https://github.com/vurtun/mmx ): vector math (BSD license)
- _**math** [ShaderFastLibs ](https://github.com/michaldrobot/ShaderFastLibs ): approximate transcendental functions optimized for shaders (esp. GCN) (MIT license)_
- **geometry** [sdf.h ](https://github.com/memononen/SDF ): compute signed-distance field from antialiased image (MIT license)
- **geometry** [nanoflann ](https://github.com/jlblancoc/nanoflann ): build KD trees for point clouds (BSD license)
- **geometry** [jc_voronoi ](https://github.com/JCash/voronoi ): find voronoi regions on float/double data (MIT license)
- **geometry** [par_msquares ](https://github.com/prideout/par ): convert (binarized) image to triangles (MIT license)
- **geometry** [tk_objfile ](https://github.com/joeld42/tk_objfile ): OBJ file loader (MIT license)
- **geometry** [par_shapes ](http://github.prideout.net/shapes/ ): generate various 3d geometric shapes (MIT license)
- **network** [mm_web.h ](https://github.com/vurtun/mmx ): lightweight webserver, fork of webby (BSD license)
- **network** [par_easycurl.h ](https://github.com/prideout/par ): curl wrapper (MIT license)
- **audio** [aw_ima.h ](https://github.com/afterwise/aw-ima/blob/master/aw-ima.h ): IMA-ADPCM audio decoder (MIT license)
- **multithreading** [mm_sched.h ](https://github.com/vurtun/mmx ): cross-platform multithreaded task scheduler (zlib license)
- **parsing** [SLRE ](https://github.com/cesanta/slre ): regular expression matcher (GPL v2)
- **parsing** [PicoJSON ](https://github.com/kazuho/picojson ): JSON parse/serializer for C++ (BSD license)
- **parsing** [mm_json.h ](https://github.com/vurtun/mmx ): JSON parser (zlib license)
- **parsing** [mm_lexer.h ](https://github.com/vurtun/mmx ): C-esque language lexer (zlib license)
- **tests** [utest ](https://github.com/evolutional/utest ): unit testing (MIT license)
- **tests** [catch ](https://github.com/philsquared/Catch ): unit testing (Boost license)
- **tests** [SPUT ](http://www.lingua-systems.com/unit-testing/ ): unit testing (BSD license)
- **misc** [lualite ](https://github.com/janezz55/lualite/ ): generate lua bindings in C++ (MIT license)
- **misc** [tinyformat ](https://github.com/c42f/tinyformat ): C++ typesafe printf (Boost license)
There are some that have a source file and require a separate header file (which they may
not even supply). That's twice as many files, and we at nothings/stb cannot condone
this! But you might like them anyway:
- **images** [picopng.cpp ](http://lodev.org/lodepng/picopng.cpp ): tiny PNG loader (zlib license)
- **images** [jpeg-compressor ](https://github.com/richgel999/jpeg-compressor ): 2-file jpeg compress, 2-file jpeg decompress (public domain)
- **3D** [mikktspace ](https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender/intern/mikktspace/ ): compute tangent space for normal mapping (zlib)
- **2D** [tigr ](https://bitbucket.org/rmitton/tigr/src ): quick-n-dirty window text/graphics for Windows (public domain)
- **2D** [noc_turtle ](https://github.com/guillaumechereau/noc ): procedural graphics generator (public domain)
- **geometry** [Tomas Akenine-Moller snippets ](http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/cs/Personal/Tomas_Akenine-Moller/code/ ): various 3D intersection calculations, not lib-ified (public domain)
- **geometry** [Clipper ](http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php ): line & polygon clipping & offsetting (Boost license)
- **geometry** [PolyPartition ](https://github.com/ivanfratric/polypartition ): polygon triangulation, partitioning (MIT license)
- **network** [yocto ](https://github.com/tom-seddon/yhs ): non-production-use http server (public domain)
- **network** [happyhttp ](http://scumways.com/happyhttp/happyhttp.html ): http client requests (zlib license)
- **network** [mongoose ](https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose ): http server (GPL v2)
- _**network** [LUrlParser ](https://github.com/corporateshark/LUrlParser ): lightweight URL & URI parser RFC 1738, RFC 3986 (MIT license)_
- **crypto** [TweetNaCl ](http://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/software.html ): high-quality tiny cryptography library (public domain)
- **AI** [micropather ](http://www.grinninglizard.com/MicroPather/ ): pathfinding with A* (zlib license)
- **compression** [miniz.c ](https://github.com/richgel999/miniz ): zlib compression,decompression, zip file, png writing (public domain)
- **compression** [lz4 ](https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4 ): fast but larger LZ compression (BSD license)
- **compression** [fastlz ](https://code.google.com/p/fastlz/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk ): fast but larger LZ compression (MIT license)
- **compression** [pithy ](https://github.com/johnezang/pithy ): fast but larger LZ compression (BSD license)
- **profiling** [Remotery ](https://github.com/Celtoys/Remotery ): CPU/GPU profiler Win/Mac/Linux, using web browser for viewer (Apache 2.0 license)
- **profiling** [MicroProfile ](https://bitbucket.org/jonasmeyer/microprofile ): CPU (and GPU?) profiler, 1-3 header files (unlicense) *uses miniz internally*
- **parsing** [json.h ](https://github.com/sheredom/json.h ): JSON parser (public domain)
- **parsing** [jzon.h ](https://github.com/Zguy/Jzon ): JSON parser, C++ (MIT license)
- **strings** [dfa ](http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/ ): fast utf8 decoder (MIT license)
- **data structures** [klib ](http://attractivechaos.github.io/klib/ ): many 2-file libs: hash, sort, b-tree, etc (MIT license)
- **data structures** [uthash ](https://github.com/troydhanson/uthash ): several 1-header, 1-license-file libs: generic hash, list, etc (BSD license)
- **data structures** [PackedArray ](https://github.com/gpakosz/PackedArray ): memory-efficient array of elements with non-pow2 bitcount (WTFPL v2 license)
- **data structures** ; **algorithms** [minilibs ](https://github.com/ccxvii/minilibs ): two-file regex, binary tree (public domain)
- **files & filenames** [whereami ](https://github.com/gpakosz/whereami ): get path/filename of executable or module (WTFPL v2 license)
- **misc** [dbgtools ](https://github.com/wc-duck/dbgtools ): cross-platform debug util libraries (zlib license)
- **misc** [stmr ](https://github.com/wooorm/stmr.c ): extract English word stems (MIT license)
- **misc** [levenshtein ](https://github.com/wooorm/levenshtein.c ): compute edit distance between two strings (MIT license)
- **tests** [pempek_assert.cpp ](https://github.com/gpakosz/Assert/tree/master/src ): flexible assertions in C++ (WTFPL v2 license)
There is also these XML libraries, but if you're using XML, shame on you:
- **parsing** [tinyxml2 ](https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2 ): XML (zlib license)
- **parsing** [pugixml ](http://pugixml.org/ ): XML (MIT license)
free to tell me about their quality.
**Public domain single-file libraries are in bold.**
category | library | license | # files | description
-------- | ------- | ------- | ------- | -----------
2D | [blendish ](https://bitbucket.org/duangle/oui-blendish/src ) | MIT | **1** | blender-style widget rendering
2D | [tigr ](https://bitbucket.org/rmitton/tigr/src ) | **public domain** | 2 | quick-n-dirty window text/graphics for Windows
2D | [noc_turtle ](https://github.com/guillaumechereau/noc ) | **public domain** | 2 | procedural graphics generator
3D | [tinyobjloader ](https://github.com/syoyo/tinyobjloader ) | BSD | **1** | wavefront OBJ file loader
3D | [mikktspace ](https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender/intern/mikktspace/ ) | zlib | 2 | compute tangent space for normal mapping
AI | [micropather ](http://www.grinninglizard.com/MicroPather/ ) | zlib | 2 | pathfinding with A*
audio | [aw_ima.h ](https://github.com/afterwise/aw-ima/blob/master/aw-ima.h ) | MIT | **1** | IMA-ADPCM audio decoder
compression | [miniz.c ](https://github.com/richgel999/miniz ) | **public domain** | 2 | zlib compression,decompression, zip file, png writing
compression | [lz4 ](https://github.com/Cyan4973/lz4 ) | BSD | 2 | fast but larger LZ compression
compression | [fastlz ](https://code.google.com/p/fastlz/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk ) | MIT | 2 | fast but larger LZ compression
compression | [pithy ](https://github.com/johnezang/pithy ) | BSD | 2 | fast but larger LZ compression
crypto | [TweetNaCl ](http://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/software.html ) | **public domain** | 2 | high-quality tiny cryptography library
data structures | [klib ](http://attractivechaos.github.io/klib/ ) | MIT | 2 | many 2-file libs: hash, sort, b-tree, etc
data structures | [uthash ](https://github.com/troydhanson/uthash ) | BSD | 2 | several 1-header, 1-license-file libs: generic hash, list, etc
data structures | [PackedArray ](https://github.com/gpakosz/PackedArray ) | **WTFPLv2** | 2 | memory-efficient array of elements with non-pow2 bitcount
data structures | [minilibs ](https://github.com/ccxvii/minilibs ) | **public domain** | 2 | two-file binary tress (also regex, etc)
files& filenames|**[DG_misc.h](https://github.com/DanielGibson/Snippets/)**|**public domain**|**1**|Daniel Gibson's stb.h-esque cross-platform helpers: path/file, strings
files & filenames | [whereami ](https://github.com/gpakosz/whereami ) | **WTFPLv2** | 2 | get path/filename of executable or module
geometry | ** [nv_voronoi.h ](http://www.icculus.org/~mordred/nvlib/ )**|**public domain**|**1**|find voronoi regions on lattice w/ integer inputs
geometry | ** [sobol.h ](https://github.com/Marc-B-Reynolds/Stand-alone-junk/blob/master/src/SFH/Sobol.h )**|**public domain**|**1**|sobol & stratified sampling sequences
geometry | [sdf.h ](https://github.com/memononen/SDF ) | MIT | **1** | compute signed-distance field from antialiased image
geometry | [nanoflann ](https://github.com/jlblancoc/nanoflann ) | BSD | **1** | build KD trees for point clouds
geometry | [jc_voronoi ](https://github.com/JCash/voronoi ) | MIT | **1** | find voronoi regions on float/double data
geometry | [par_msquares ](https://github.com/prideout/par ) | MIT | **1** | convert (binarized) image to triangles
geometry | [tk_objfile ](https://github.com/joeld42/tk_objfile ) | | **1** | OBJ file loader
geometry | [par_shapes ](http://github.prideout.net/shapes/ ) | MIT | **1** | generate various 3d geometric shapes
geometry | [Tomas Akenine-Moller snippets ](http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/cs/Personal/Tomas_Akenine-Moller/code/ ) | **public domain** | 2 | various 3D intersection calculations, not lib-ified
geometry | [Clipper ](http://www.angusj.com/delphi/clipper.php ) | Boost | 2 | line & polygon clipping & offsetting
geometry | [PolyPartition ](https://github.com/ivanfratric/polypartition ) | MIT | 2 | polygon triangulation, partitioning
hardware| ** [EasyTab ](https://github.com/ApoorvaJ/EasyTab )**|**public domain**|**1**|multi-platform tablet input
images| ** [jo_gif.cpp ](http://www.jonolick.com/home/gif-writer )**|**public domain**|**1**|animated GIF writer
images| ** [gif.h ](https://github.com/ginsweater/gif-h )**|**public domain**|**1**|animated GIF writer
images| ** [tiny_jpeg.h ](https://github.com/serge-rgb/TinyJPEG/blob/master/tiny_jpeg.h )**|**public domain**|**1**|JPEG encoder
images| ** [miniexr ](https://github.com/aras-p/miniexr )**|**public domain**|**1**|OpenEXR writer
images | [tinyexr ](https://github.com/syoyo/tinyexr ) | BSD | **1** | EXR image read/write, uses miniz internally
images | [lodepng ](http://lodev.org/lodepng/ ) | zlib | **1** | PNG encoder/decoder
images | [nanoSVG ](https://github.com/memononen/nanosvg ) | zlib | **1** | 1-file SVG parser; 1-file SVG rasterizer
images | [picopng.cpp ](http://lodev.org/lodepng/picopng.cpp ) | zlib | 2 | tiny PNG loader
images | [jpeg-compressor ](https://github.com/richgel999/jpeg-compressor ) | **public domain** | 2 | 2-file jpeg compress, 2-file jpeg decompress
math | [mm_vec.h ](https://github.com/vurtun/mmx ) | BSD | **1** | SIMD vector math
math | [ShaderFastLibs ](https://github.com/michaldrobot/ShaderFastLibs ) | MIT | **1** | approximate transcendental functions optimized for shaders (esp. GCN)
multithreading | [mm_sched.h ](https://github.com/vurtun/mmx ) | zlib | **1** | cross-platform multithreaded task scheduler
network | ** [zed_net ](https://github.com/ZedZull/zed_net )**|**public domain**|**1**|cross-platform socket wrapper
network | [mm_web.h ](https://github.com/vurtun/mmx ) | BSD | **1** | lightweight webserver, fork of webby
network | [par_easycurl.h ](https://github.com/prideout/par ) | MIT | **1** | curl wrapper
network | [yocto ](https://github.com/tom-seddon/yhs ) | **public domain** | 2 | non-production-use http server
network | [happyhttp ](http://scumways.com/happyhttp/happyhttp.html ) | zlib | 2 | http client requests
network | [mongoose ](https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose ) | GPLv2 | 2 | http server
network | [LUrlParser ](https://github.com/corporateshark/LUrlParser ) | MIT | 2 | lightweight URL & URI parser RFC 1738, RFC 3986
parsing | [SLRE ](https://github.com/cesanta/slre ) | GPLv2 | **1** | regular expression matcher
parsing | [PicoJSON ](https://github.com/kazuho/picojson ) | BSD | **1** | JSON parse/serializer for C++
parsing | [mm_json.h ](https://github.com/vurtun/mmx ) | zlib | **1** | JSON parser
parsing | [mm_lexer.h ](https://github.com/vurtun/mmx ) | zlib | **1** | C-esque language lexer
parsing | [json.h ](https://github.com/sheredom/json.h ) | **public domain** | 2 | JSON parser
parsing | [jzon.h ](https://github.com/Zguy/Jzon ) | MIT | 2 | JSON parser, C++
parsing | [minilibs ](https://github.com/ccxvii/minilibs ) | **public domain** | 2 | two-file regex (also binary tree, etc)
profiling | [Remotery ](https://github.com/Celtoys/Remotery ) | Apache 2.0 | 2 | CPU/GPU profiler Win/Mac/Linux, using web browser for viewer
profiling | [MicroProfile ](https://bitbucket.org/jonasmeyer/microprofile ) | **unlicense** | 2-4 | CPU (and GPU?) profiler, 1-3 header files, uses miniz internally
scripting | [lualite ](https://github.com/janezz55/lualite/ ) | MIT | **1** | generate lua bindings in C++
strings | ** [DG_misc.h ](https://github.com/DanielGibson/Snippets/ )**|**public domain**|**1**|Daniel Gibson's stb.h-esque cross-platform helpers: path/file, strings
strings | ** [utf8 ](https://github.com/sheredom/utf8.h )**|**public domain**|**1**|utf8 string library
strings | ** [strpool.h ](https://github.com/mattiasgustavsson/libs )**|**public domain**/MIT|string interning
strings | [dfa ](http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/ ) | MIT | 2 | fast utf8 decoder
strings | ** [gb_string.h ](https://github.com/gingerBill/gb )**|**public domain**|**1**|dynamic strings for C
tests | [utest ](https://github.com/evolutional/utest ) | MIT | **1** | unit testing
tests | [catch ](https://github.com/philsquared/Catch ) | Boost | **1** | unit testing
tests | [SPUT ](http://www.lingua-systems.com/unit-testing/ ) | BSD | **1** | unit testing
tests | [pempek_assert.cpp ](https://github.com/gpakosz/Assert/tree/master/src ) | **WTFPLv2** | 2 | flexible assertions in C++
user interface|[dear imgui](https://github.com/ocornut/imgui)|MIT|_many_|an immediate-mode GUI formerly named "ImGui"
misc | ** [MakeID.h ](http://www.humus.name/3D/MakeID.h )**|**public domain**|**1**|allocate/deallocate small integer IDs efficiently
misc | ** [loguru ](https://github.com/emilk/loguru )**|**public domain**|**1**|flexible logging for C++
misc | [tinyformat ](https://github.com/c42f/tinyformat ) | Boost | **1** | C++ typesafe printf
misc | [dbgtools ](https://github.com/wc-duck/dbgtools ) | zlib | 2 | cross-platform debug util libraries
misc | [stmr ](https://github.com/wooorm/stmr.c ) | MIT | 2 | extract English word stems
misc | [levenshtein ](https://github.com/wooorm/levenshtein.c ) | MIT | 2 | compute edit distance between two strings
There are also these XML libraries, but if you're using XML, shame on you:
- parsing: [tinyxml2 ](https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2 ): XML
- parsing: [pugixml ](http://pugixml.org/ ): XML (MIT license)
There are some libraries that are just _so_ awesome that even though they use more
than two files we're going to give them special dispensation to appear in their own
little list here. If you're a crazy purist, be warned, but otherwise, enjoy!
- **user interface** [dear imgui ](https://github.com/ocornut/imgui ): an immediate-mode GUI ("imgui") named "ImGui" (MIT license)
Also you might be interested in other related, but different lists:
- [clib ](https://github.com/clibs/clib/wiki/Packages ): list of (mostly) small single C functions (licenses not listed)
Sean Barrett
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