md4c

Markdown parser made in C

MIT github.com md4c 5 releases newest changed 17 days ago

version0.5.3 attributemd4c revf45c6f04c2f013f004bf94e284e95d72898d9393 2026-09-28 · one commit for every system systems✓ aarch64-darwin✓ aarch64-linuxx86_64-darwin✓ x86_64-linux

$ devbox add md4c@0.5.3

$ nix shell github:NixOS/nixpkgs/f45c6f04c2f013f004bf94e284e95d72898d9393#md4c

JSON: /v2/resolve?name=md4c&version=latest

Releases

newest first, as /v2/pkg orders them

Version	arm mac	arm linux	x86 mac	x86 linux	Attribute	Commit	Date	Outputs
0.5.3resolved	✓	✓	–	✓	`md4c`	02f5696b0e	2026-09-13	man, out, dev, lib
0.5.2	✓	✓	✓	✓	`md4c`	varies	2026-07-05	man, out, dev, lib
0.5.1	✓	✓	✓	✓	`md4c`	varies	2024-02-09	man, out, dev, lib
0.4.8	✓	✓	✓	✓	`md4c`	160b762eda	2024-01-27
0.4.7	–	–	–	✓	`md4c`	79cb2cb986	2021-04-25

Prereleases are listed but latest never picks one. “varies” means each system last changed at a different nixpkgs commit — the release page lists them.

Description

MD4C is Markdown parser implementation in C, with the following features: - Compliance: Generally, MD4C aims to be compliant to the latest version of CommonMark specification. Currently, we are fully compliant to CommonMark 0.30. - Extensions: MD4C supports some commonly requested and accepted extensions. See below. - Performance: MD4C is very fast. - Compactness: MD4C parser is implemented in one source file and one header file. There are no dependencies other than standard C library. - Embedding: MD4C parser is easy to reuse in other projects, its API is very straightforward: There is actually just one function, md_parse(). - Push model: MD4C parses the complete document and calls few callback functions provided by the application to inform it about a start/end of every block, a start/end of every span, and with any textual contents. - Portability: MD4C builds and works on Windows and POSIX-compliant OSes. (It should be simple to make it run also on most other platforms, at least as long as the platform provides C standard library, including a heap memory management.) - Encoding: MD4C by default expects UTF-8 encoding of the input document. But it can be compiled to recognize ASCII-only control characters (i.e. to disable all Unicode-specific code), or (on Windows) to expect UTF-16 (i.e. what is on Windows commonly called just "Unicode"). See more details below. - Permissive license: MD4C is available under the MIT license.