dep

General purpose dependency manager, with a slight focus on static C libraries

Summary

Usage: dep [global options] <command> [options] [-- ...args]

Global options:
  n/a

Commands:
  a(dd)           Add a new dependency to the project
  i(nstall)       Install all the project's dependencies
  h(elp) [topic]  Show this help or the top-level info about a command
  r(epo(sitory))  Repository management

Help topics:
  global          This help text
  add             More detailed explanation on the add command
  install         More detailed explanation on the install command
  repository      More detailed explanation on the repository command

Installation

To install dep, simply download dist/dep and place it in your /usr/local/bin directory or anywhere else that's included in your $PATH.

By default, no default repositories are enabled, so it's advisable to run the following to enable the official repository:

dep repository add finwo https://github.com/finwo/dep-repository/archive/refs/heads/main.tar.gz

Usage

Update repositories

dep keeps local cache of the repositories you have enabled. To update this cache, run the following command

dep repository update

Adding a dependency to your project

To add a package, you can call the following command to install a specific version of the package:

dep add package/identifier@version

If you have package.channel set in your project's package.ini, you can also leave the version from the command to automatically select the version you've set there.

[package]
channel=edge

dep add package/identifier

For example, if you'd want to install the finwo/palloc package, you could use the following comamnd:

dep add finwo/palloc@edge # with version specifier
dep add finwo/palloc      # without version specifier

Building

Building this dependency manager requires preprocess which you can install by running pip install preprocess.

After fetching the preprocess dependency, you can build & install dep by running the following commands:

make
sudo make install

To install the binary in a location other than /usr/local/bin, pass the DESTDIR definition to the make install command (default: /usr/local).

License

This project falls under the MIT license