unibilium

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  "desc": "Very basic terminfo library",
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  "full_name": "unibilium",
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  "github_last_commit_at": "2025-06-20T13:55:51Z",
  "github_readme_excerpt": "Overview\n========\n\nUnibilium is a very basic terminfo library. It can read and write\nncurses-style terminfo files, and it can interpret terminfo format strings.\nIt doesn\u0027t depend on curses or any other library. It also doesn\u0027t use global\nvariables, so it should be thread-safe.\n\n\nBuilding and installing\n=======================\n\nPrerequisites\n-------------\n\n- a C compiler (technically this is all you need, but if you want to use the\n  included `Makefile`, read on)\n- GNU make (the included `Makefile` was written for GNU make; if it works in\n  anything else, it\u0027s by accident)\n- GNU libtool (for building shared libraries)\n- a unix-ish shell (sh, that is)\n- Perl (specifically, `pod2man` for creating the man pages and `prove` for\n  running the test suite)\n- gzip (for compressing the man pages)\n\nConfigure\n---------\n\nTo generate the `configure` script run:\n\n    autoreconf -fi\n\nTo list the `configure` options run:\n\n    ./configure --help\n\nTo generate the `Makefile` run:\n\n    ./configure --prefix=...\n\nBuilding\n--------\n\nCompile `unibilium.c`, `uninames.c`, and `uniutil.c` into a library.\n\nThe generated `Makefile` does this for you:\n\n    make\n\nor\n\n    make all\n\ncreates the library files, generates the man pages, and compiles the test\nsuite.\n\nThere is a number of variables you can specify on the `make` command line to\noverride the default behavior:\n\n- `TERMINFO_DIRS`: A C string literal containing a colon-separated list of\n  directories where unibilium should look for compiled terminfo files at\n  runtime (e.g. `make TERMINFO_DIRS=\u0027\"/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo\"\u0027`).\n  This depends on how your ncurses library was configured.\n  Defaults to `\"\"` on Windows; everywhere else the local ncurses installation\n  is queried (by trying `ncursesw6-config`, `ncurses6-config`,\n  `ncursesw5-config`, `ncurses5-config` in turn) and if that fails, a\n  hardcoded list of likely directory names is used.\n- `TERMINFO`: A C string literal containing a directory\n  where unibilium should look for comp",
  "github_repo": "neovim/unibilium",
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  "homepage": "https://github.com/neovim/unibilium",
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  "license": "LGPL-3.0-or-later",
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  "name": "unibilium",
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  "one_liner": "Minimal C library for reading, writing, and interpreting terminfo terminal capability files without external dependencies.",
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  "ruby_source_path": "Formula/u/unibilium.rb",
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  "version_stable": "2.1.2",
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  "why_use_this": "Build dependency for terminal-aware tools (notably Neovim) that need lightweight terminfo support without linking libcurses. Thread-safe, zero global state, and single-file compilation make it ideal for embedded or minimal terminal UIs. Drops in where you need terminfo parsing without the overhead of ncurses."
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