tsoding/nob.h

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Header only library for writing build recipes in C.

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Dominant language: C++
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Last GitHub push: Jul 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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how to get exit code from cmd_run Open

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tsoding/nob.h#277 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Suggestion: nob_isatty and nob_fileno Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

tsoding/nob.h#276 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
Make nob__go_rebuild_urself preserve the exit code; Add `nob_proc_wait_exit_code` to the public API Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

tsoding/nob.h#273 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
nob__walk_dir_opt_impl() tries to close zeroed handle for non directory entries Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

tsoding/nob.h#266 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 5, 2026
nob_get_file_type error check is dead code: nob_copy_directory_recursively aborts and nob_walk_dir returns true on unreadable paths Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

tsoding/nob.h#262 · Opened Jul 25, 2026
[Suggestion] nob_cc_lib Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

tsoding/nob.h#252 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 9, 2026
mkdir cannot create path parent Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

tsoding/nob.h#250 · Opened Jun 26, 2026
nob_read_entire_dir corrupts filenames containing wide UTF charachters on Windows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

tsoding/nob.h#243 · 1 comment · Opened May 18, 2026
filesystem api fails for virtual file systems Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

tsoding/nob.h#242 · Opened May 10, 2026
Adding an option to control the environment variables that are being passed into the child processes Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

tsoding/nob.h#239 · Opened May 4, 2026
POSIX functions not defined if using `-std=cXX` Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 76/100

tsoding/nob.h#235 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 19, 2026
nob_cmd_append no longer type safe, due to relying on va args Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

tsoding/nob.h#228 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 30, 2026
Implementing deque using circular buffers in nob.h Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

tsoding/nob.h#207 · Opened Jan 24, 2026
Implementing Python's heapq in nob.h Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

tsoding/nob.h#206 · Opened Jan 23, 2026
[Feature Request] Command dependency tree. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

tsoding/nob.h#201 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 19, 2026
Unicode UTF-8 does not work in Windows console. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

tsoding/nob.h#187 · 9 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2026
MSVC warning about signed to unsigned conversion. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

tsoding/nob.h#185 · Opened Jan 6, 2026
NOB_GO_REBUILD_URSELF not working under mingw64 clang shell (Windows 11) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

tsoding/nob.h#176 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 29, 2025
question about dep tracking Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

tsoding/nob.h#168 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 6, 2025
[Suggestion] It would be nice if nob.h has ability to address custom printf. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

tsoding/nob.h#165 · Opened Nov 23, 2025
Compiling nob with mingw64 on windows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

tsoding/nob.h#159 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 2, 2025
`NOB_GO_REBUILD_URSELF` fails if not run from the same folder where its source code is located Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

tsoding/nob.h#156 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 30, 2025
[Improvement] NOB_NO_ECHO Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

tsoding/nob.h#155 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2025
[Suggestion] Make NOB_REBUILD_URSELF from nob_cc_* macros Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

tsoding/nob.h#154 · Opened Oct 25, 2025
define _DEFAULT_SOURCE on non-windows environments to prevent feature test macros from removing functions like clock_gettime() Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

tsoding/nob.h#152 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 23, 2025
Add function `leak_sv_to_cstr` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

tsoding/nob.h#139 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 21, 2025
Idea for a possible Nob_HashMap Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

tsoding/nob.h#138 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2025
[Question] Is there a way to 'forward' msvc enviroment varaibles? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

tsoding/nob.h#134 · Opened Sep 9, 2025
Support capturing stdout/stderr in memory with nob_cmd_run / nob_cmd_run_opt Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

tsoding/nob.h#133 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Sep 8, 2025
gcc ld invalid argument error, when appending "" to cmd Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

tsoding/nob.h#130 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 5, 2025
Just sharing with you a usage example for cross compile Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

tsoding/nob.h#127 · Opened Aug 30, 2025
Unsupported use cases of nob.h that require use of `nob__cmd_start_process` - parsing pipes and windowed apps Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

tsoding/nob.h#120 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 27, 2025
[Suggestion] Add a way to create a process for a func. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

tsoding/nob.h#115 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2025
[Suggestion] Make nob_needs_rebuild accept input paths as __VA_ARGS__ Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

tsoding/nob.h#113 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2025
`NOB_EXPERIMENTAL_DELETE_OLD` on Windows Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

tsoding/nob.h#111 · 16 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2025
[Suggestion] A function to recursively delete a directory? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

tsoding/nob.h#88 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 15, 2025

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