Cabin

Cabin is an opinionated build and package manager for conventional C/C++ projects.

It uses a declarative manifest and a predictable project model to reduce build configuration boilerplate. Cabin is inspired by Cargo where the workflow maps cleanly, but it deliberately diverges where C and C++ require different semantics.

Cabin is best suited for projects that want a simple, explicit, package-oriented workflow rather than a fully programmable build system.

Current Limitations

Cabin is still pre-1.0. Some features may be incomplete, experimental, or subject to redesign.

Installation

Read "Installation" from Cabin Docs.

Installing from Source (not recommended)

See INSTALL.md.

Examples

Runnable Cabin example projects live in examples/. Each one is a real Cabin package you can build and run directly; see examples/README.md for the index.

Community

See GitHub Discussions.

Sponsorship

Support Cabin's ongoing development by becoming a sponsor.

This project was initially funded in 2018 by the MITOU IT Program (project page (ja)), with additional financial support from Shigeru Urushibara of UL Systems, Inc..

In 2026, Cabin's development is also supported by Anthropic's Claude for Open Source program.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Cabin is licensed under the terms of the Apache License version 2.0.

See LICENSE for details.