Is there a way to build Zig libraries to be used by Zig instead of as C libraries?

• zig-error-abi

  1 8 10.0 Zig

  Library that allows zig errors to be returned from external functions

The thing that most provoked me to wonder about this was finding this project: Zig Error-ABI. It is designed to turn errors into hash codes so that they can be passed across the ABI boundary. As a Zig library, this only seems to make sense if there is Zig on both sides of the ABI boundary. It is counterintuitive that this should ever have reason to happen.

• SDL.zig

  6 289 6.8 C

  A shallow wrapper around SDL that provides object API and error handling

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• zig

  816 30,631 10.0 Zig

  General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

  

The related issues (so far and to my knowledge) are - https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/3786 - https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/10156 - https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/10558

• dmd

  146 2,888 9.9 D

  dmd D Programming Language compiler

  

Since you're familiar with C and Zig, you might be interested to know about the D Langauge approach which is somewhere in between. When you import a file in D, it does not mean "include it's code in the compilation" like it would in Zig (unless you supply the '-i' argument to the compiler, I added that here https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7099). Instead, when it imports a module it will parse the file but only look at interfaces (i.e. types, constants, function signatures, etc). By convention if this module comes from a library, then it would have been compiled beforehand and the source code is used to like a C header file.

• zig-wayland

  1 78 0.0 Zig

  Discontinued Zig wayland scanner and libwayland bindings

You do not need pre-compiled libraries for generated code. As an example, see zig-wayland, which generates code based on the Wayland protocol XML files during a build-step.

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