17 Jul 2024 , tagged: zig

Zig Fetch

Zig’s package manager is still a bit rough. It only supports fetching tarballs, but many github projects don’t have them unless they have a release. There’s a trick to fetch any commit as a tarball though:

https://api.github.com/repos/<repo-owner>/<repo>/tarball/<ref>

zig fetch can than download the code:

zig fetch --save https://api.github.com/repos/<repo-owner>/<repo>/tarball/<ref>

Once the code is downloaded, it still has to be added to your exe or libray in build.zig:

    const exe = b.addExecutable(.{
        .name = "zlox",
        .root_source_file = b.path("src/main.zig"),
        .target = target,
        .optimize = optimize,
    });

    const my_dep = b.dependency("<name of dependency>", .{ .target = target, .optimize = optimize });
    exe.root_module.addImport("regex", regex_dep.module("regex"));