tsoding/nob.h
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Header only library for writing build recipes in C.
7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2024-10-15 · latest 2025-12-12
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Notable mentions are Zig build system and nob: https://github.com/tsoding/nob.h .
comment by ivanjermakov · 2025-09-22 · in Dear GitHub: no YAML anchors, please -
Tsoding wrote https://github.com/tsoding/nob.h , single header C library for cross platform builds, only requirement is cc. GDB profiling tools can then be used to look at your build step. It's a neat idea. I suspect this is not an option…
comment by hagendaasalpine · 2025-08-15 · in I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer -
…e.g. C language. https://oneofus.la/have-emacs-will-hack/files/1978_Feldman_M... Some already do https://github.com/tsoding/nob.h https://youtu.be/D1bsg8wkZzo?t=97 https://youtu.be/mLUhSPD4F2k?t=73 https://youtu.be/eRt7vhosgKE?list=PLpM-Dvs…
comment by diimdeep · 2025-06-15 · in Using `make` to compile C programs -
And here’s the library for it: https://github.com/tsoding/nob.h
comment by Tabular-Iceberg · 2025-04-08 · in Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell -
Just use programming language to build itself, it is even possible with C [0] [0] https://github.com/tsoding/nob.h If it is painful, ditch that language.
comment by diimdeep · 2024-12-07 · in Just: Just a Command Runner