The latest articles on DEV Community by Jayadev (@jayadev_cronobi). https://dev.to/jayadev_cronobi https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3982683%2F9ed9b9ce-633b-4bc2-9ad2-f79fcbb16c46.jpeg https://dev.to/jayadev_cronobi en Jayadev Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:15:31 +0000 https://dev.to/jayadev_cronobi/i-built-a-package-manager-for-c-from-scratch-heres-what-i-learned-3bh2 https://dev.to/jayadev_cronobi/i-built-a-package-manager-for-c-from-scratch-heres-what-i-learned-3bh2 <p>Hi. My name is Jayadev. I am from kerala(a beautiful state in india). i am C/C++ programmer. I learn C/C++ by selfthought. I am still learning english. so don't joke about me. I also learned C/C++ from a institute called G-tech education. It is a popular computer education institution in kerala. </p> <p>Why i cam here is, i am going to say an exciting news for you guys. I made a small fast package manager for C++ in C++. Its name is Bolt. I can share screenshot with you.</p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fypg64jd48jkad0t1ez0v.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fypg64jd48jkad0t1ez0v.png" alt=" " width="800" height="450"></a></p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F1y303ogm98jhjlrfhjw8.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F1y303ogm98jhjlrfhjw8.png" alt=" " width="800" height="450"></a></p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fjcvm7k4517itc1zxrt0e.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fjcvm7k4517itc1zxrt0e.png" alt=" " width="800" height="450"></a></p> <p>These images shows small informations of how bolt works. When we anyone type:</p> <p>bolt add </p> <p>bolt will search the packages in github and list it. We can select the index of it and click enter; the package will downlaod to our project and inject dependencies informations in to CMakeLists.txt or meson.build. bilt also have commands like remove, install etc. More details in my github repo;</p> <p>Project github repo: <a href="https://github.com/Cronobi/bolt" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/Cronobi/bolt</a></p> <p>Thanks for reading this. I will see you on next post. Bye</p> c cpp programming coding