basemax / c-minifier

CMinifier: A C program to remove comments and minimize the code (remove whitespace and summarize code)

C Minifier

A C program to remove comments and minimize the code (remove whitespace and summarize code)

Features

• Supporting most C keywords and automatically add space after these, such as: if, else, int, long, float, bool, sizeof
• Supporting macro statements #include and others
• Fast and Without any third-party library
• Without using Regex
• Remove inline C-style comments
• Remove multiline C-style comments
• Trim whitespaces
• Remove empty lines

Build

$ gcc Minifier.c -o minifier

Using

If you are going to minify A C program and get the results in stdout:

./minifier Minifier.c

And maybe sometime you need to write the result in another or same file:

./minifier Minifier.c o.c

TODO

• Adding more C keywords if needed or missed
• Automatically rename and make short identifier names (A hash-map list to keep original name and new random name and a function to generate a short (and unique) name)

Welcome to help and feel free to contribute and send Pull request.

Please open a issue if you find a bug and not have time to fix. Thanks in advance.

© Copyright Max Base, 2022

c-minifier's Issues

Supporting all C keywords

List:

auto | break | case | char | const |
                        continue | default | do | double | else |
                        enum | extern | float | for | goto |
                        if | int | long | register | return |
                        short | signed | sizeof | static | struct |
                        switch | typedef | union | unsigned | void |
                        volatile | while