About:

C lacks a proper standard library so I decided to create a proper one that makes it easier for me to get started on a project and have the necessary default functions by default.

It is cross-platform and works on windows, linux and Freebsd (no support for macos yet) as well as in many compilers like gcc, clang and tcc (doesn't yet support MSVC). This is still very much experimental and if used you should read base.h implementations and assume they might have bugs, I strongly recommend to just use as inspiration or recreationally until version 1.0.

I will add features as I need them and fix stuff as I break it, backwards compatibility is not garanteed either until 1.0.

Features:

• Defer - It works similar to Go's defer it only works on gcc and clang with -fblocks flag (MSVC doesnt support this yet nor does tcc, and they probably wont until C23/C26+)

#define DEFER_DEFINITION // Must define this macro

i32 *ptr = (i32 *) malloc(10 * sizeof(int));
defer {
  free(ptr); // will execute at the end
}

• Vector - In here you have VecPush, VecShift, VecUnshift, etc. It's just a regular macro implementation.
• Arenas - Based on Ginger Bill's arena implemenation.
• String - Some basic string functions.
• File System - Some abstractions for both windows and linux for files.
• And more...

Usage:

A good way to keep this updated is by using git submodules, you can add base.h like this:

git submodule add https://github.com/TomasBorquez/base.h.git ./vendor/base

This will add base.h to ./vendor, then you can include it from there or add a -I"./vendor/base" flag when compiling and importing like:

#define BASE_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "base.h"

And for keeping it updated you can:

git submodule update --init