  Optimization techniques play an important role in several scientific and
real-world applications, thus becoming of great interest for the community. As
a consequence, a number of open-source libraries are available in the
literature, which ends up fostering the research and development of new
techniques and applications. In this work, we present a new library for the
implementation and fast prototyping of nature-inspired techniques called
LibOPT. Currently, the library implements 15 techniques and 112 benchmarking
functions, as well as it also supports 11 hypercomplex-based optimization
approaches, which makes it one of the first of its kind. We showed how one can
easily use and also implement new techniques in LibOPT under the C paradigm.
Examples are provided with samples of source-code using benchmarking functions.
