ndevilla/iniparser

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1071 stars · 433 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A small, dependency-free C library for parsing INI configuration files, around 1500 lines of code in four files. It is fully re-entrant, portable pedantic C, and builds as static or shared libraries via CMake.

Use cases

• parse ini config files from C
• read application settings from an ini file
• embed a lightweight ini parser in a C project
• load configuration without external dependencies
• write and modify ini files programmatically in C

When to choose

• you need a tiny, portable ini parser in C with no dependencies
• you want a re-entrant parser that is easy to make thread-safe
• you need a mature, widely packaged ini library

When to avoid

• you need hierarchical or typed configuration formats like YAML, TOML, or JSON
• you want built-in thread safety without adding your own mutex
• you need a parser in a language other than C

Facets

library · maturity active

parser configuration-management developer-tools parsers developer-tools files c cross-platform windows ini config-files cmake no-dependencies reentrant linux macos

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