paul

Platform Agnostic Utility Libraries

A collection of header-only, zero-dependency, platform-agnostic C libraries. Targets: Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

Libraries

Library	C version	Notes
paul_bitmap.h	??	Bitmap manipulation utilities (optionally supports paul_color)
paul_bignumbers.h	??	Big number library. Big int, float (real), and complex
paul_color.h	??	Color manipulation utilities
paul_ecs.h	??	Barebones pure entity-component-system (uses sparse arrays)
paul_list.h¹	??	Dynamic array (stretch-buffer) implementation
paul_math.h*	??	Linear algebra, vector + matrix math
paul_os.h	??	OS abstractions and path manipulation
paul_random.h²	??	Pseudo-random number generation and noise functions
paul_string.h	??	Unified ascii+wide string type
paul_threads.h§	??	Thread pool + job queue

Legend

• *: Library depends on clang/gcc extensions

• §: Library depends on C11 threads or pthreads/Win32 threads

• †: Library will not compile under C++

• ??: I haven't determined the C standard yet (TODO: determine C versions lol)

• 1: Based on stretchy buffer by nothings (Sean Barrett)

• 2: Uses prng generation from prng by rdadolf (Bob Adolf)

LICENSE

paul Copyright (C) 2025 George Watson

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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