Package help for SSO string library (and libexec question)

[dude_the_builder]

@nyc

So addModule goes in the zig-string build.zig, not the consumers of it? That exports the module?

Correct on both. If you have different source files provding public APIs, you could add module for each of them.

@nyc

and what’s the difference between a module and a package?

A package is a Zig source tree that provides modules for user packages to import and can be added as a dependency. A module is like a unit of Zig code that can provide a public API to be imported via @import or even just data to be embedded via @embed. Here’s the GitHub issue that discusses the terminology: build system terminology update: package, project, module, dependency · Issue #14307 · ziglang/zig · GitHub

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