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TSI Package Repository

This directory contains package definitions for TSI. Each package is defined as a JSON file.

Total Packages: 100

Package Categories

Build Tools & Compilers

  • pkg-config - Helper tool for finding installed libraries
  • cmake - Cross-platform build system generator
  • meson - Build system
  • ninja - Small build system
  • autoconf - Build system generator
  • automake - Build system generator (depends on autoconf)
  • libtool - Generic library support script
  • make - GNU Make build tool
  • gcc - GNU Compiler Collection
  • clang - C language family frontend for LLVM
  • llvm - LLVM compiler infrastructure
  • rust - Rust programming language
  • go - Go programming language

Core System Libraries

  • zlib - Compression library (very common dependency)
  • openssl - Cryptography and SSL/TLS toolkit
  • libffi - Foreign Function Interface library
  • pcre2 - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library
  • oniguruma - Regular expressions library
  • re2 - Fast, safe, thread-friendly regular expression library
  • ncurses - Terminal control library
  • readline - Command-line editing library
  • libedit - Command line editing library
  • libuuid - UUID generation library
  • libcap - Linux capabilities library
  • libseccomp - Linux seccomp library
  • liburing - Linux io_uring library
  • libuv - Cross-platform asynchronous I/O library
  • libmagic - File type identification library

Compression & Archiving

  • bzip2 - High-quality data compressor
  • xz - XZ compression library
  • lz4 - Extremely fast compression algorithm
  • zstd - Fast real-time compression algorithm
  • snappy - Fast compression/decompression library
  • libarchive - Multi-format archive and compression library
  • tar - GNU tar archiving utility
  • gzip - GNU compression utility
  • unzip - Extraction utility for .zip archives

Networking & HTTP

  • curl - Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs
  • wget - Network utility to retrieve files from the Web
  • aria2 - Lightweight multi-protocol download utility
  • libssh - SSH client library
  • libevent - Event notification library
  • libev - High-performance event loop library
  • zeromq - High-performance messaging library
  • nanomsg - Socket library
  • grpc - High performance RPC framework

Data Serialization

  • protobuf - Protocol Buffers data serialization
  • msgpack - Efficient binary serialization format
  • avro - Data serialization system

XML & JSON Parsing

  • libxml2 - XML C parser and toolkit
  • libxslt - XSLT library
  • expat - XML parser library
  • yajl - Yet Another JSON Library
  • jansson - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data
  • cjson - Ultralightweight JSON parser in ANSI C
  • rapidjson - Fast JSON parser/generator for C++

Configuration & Data Formats

  • libyaml - YAML parser and emitter library

Database Libraries

  • sqlite - SQL database engine
  • gdbm - GNU database manager
  • berkeley-db - Berkeley DB embedded database library
  • lmdb - Lightning Memory-Mapped Database
  • leveldb - Fast key-value storage library
  • rocksdb - Persistent key-value store
  • redis - In-memory data structure store
  • postgresql - PostgreSQL database server
  • mysql - MySQL database server
  • mariadb - MariaDB database server
  • mongodb - MongoDB database server

Graphics & Image Processing

  • libpng - PNG reference library
  • libjpeg-turbo - JPEG image codec library
  • libwebp - WebP image library
  • libtiff - TIFF library and utilities
  • libgif - GIF library
  • libavif - AV1 Image File Format library
  • libheif - HEIF image format library
  • freetype - FreeType font rendering library
  • harfbuzz - Text shaping library
  • cairo - 2D graphics library
  • pixman - Pixel manipulation library
  • pango - Text layout and rendering library
  • gdk-pixbuf - Image loading library

GUI & Desktop Libraries

  • glib - Core application building blocks
  • gobject-introspection - GObject introspection framework

Math & Scientific Computing

  • gmp - GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
  • mpfr - Multiple-precision floating-point library
  • mpc - Multiple-precision complex arithmetic library
  • boost - C++ libraries
  • icu - International Components for Unicode

Version Control & Development Tools

  • git - Distributed version control system
  • libgit2 - Git library

Text Editors & Shells

  • vim - Vi IMproved text editor
  • emacs - GNU Emacs text editor
  • tmux - Terminal multiplexer
  • bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell
  • zsh - Z shell
  • fish - Friendly interactive shell

Programming Languages & Runtimes

  • python - Python programming language
  • ruby - Ruby programming language
  • node - Node.js JavaScript runtime

Applications

  • curl - Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs

Package Dependencies

pkg-config (standalone)
zlib (standalone)
openssl (standalone)
libffi (standalone)
pcre2 (standalone)

autoconf (standalone)
automake (depends on: autoconf)
libtool (standalone)

cmake (depends on: openssl)

curl (depends on: openssl, zlib)
  └── build_dependencies: pkg-config

Installation Order

For a minimal system, recommended installation order:

  1. pkg-config - Needed by many packages
  2. zlib - Common compression library
  3. openssl - Security library
  4. autoconf - Build system
  5. automake - Build system (needs autoconf)
  6. libtool - Library support
  7. libffi - FFI library
  8. pcre2 - Regex library
  9. cmake - Build system (needs openssl)
  10. curl - HTTP client (needs openssl, zlib)

TSI will automatically resolve and install dependencies in the correct order.

Usage

Install a package

# Install pkg-config
tsi install pkg-config

# Install curl (will automatically install openssl and zlib first)
tsi install curl

# Install cmake (will automatically install openssl first)
tsi install cmake

List available packages

# List all packages in repository
ls packages/*.json

# Get info about a package
tsi info pkg-config

Package Format

See example.json for a basic package template.

Required Fields

  • name: Package name
  • version: Package version
  • description: Package description
  • source: Source information (type, url, etc.)
  • build_system: Build system type (autotools, cmake, make, custom)

Optional Fields

  • dependencies: Runtime dependencies
  • build_dependencies: Build-time dependencies
  • configure_args: Arguments for ./configure
  • cmake_args: Arguments for cmake
  • make_args: Arguments for make
  • env: Environment variables
  • build_commands: Custom build commands (for custom build system)

Adding New Packages

Manual Addition

  1. Create a new JSON file in this directory
  2. Follow the format of existing packages
  3. Test installation: tsi install <package-name>

External Package Configuration

Projects can include their own .tsi.json file in their repository, and a GitHub Actions workflow will automatically sync updates. See External Package Configuration for details.

This allows project maintainers to: - Include package configuration directly in their repository - Automatically sync new versions to TSI - Maintain a single source of truth for package definitions

Automatic Version Discovery

TSI can automatically discover and add new package versions using the version discovery system. See Version Discovery for details.

Quick start: 

# Discover versions for a package
python3 scripts/discover-versions.py <package-name>

# Discover versions for all packages
python3 scripts/discover-versions.py --all --dry-run

The system: - Automatically discovers versions from GitHub, git repos, and other sources - Generates version definitions based on existing templates - Adds new versions while preserving existing ones - Runs weekly via GitHub Actions to keep packages up-to-date

Notes

  • All packages install to ${TSI_PREFIX} (default: ~/.tsi/install)
  • Environment variables like PKG_CONFIG_PATH are set automatically
  • Dependencies are resolved and installed automatically
  • Build order is determined automatically via topological sort