Simple http file server

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@alberic89

but I prefer to avoid dependencies

I don’t agree with that, I think using a dependency is the way to solve this.

Avoiding dependencies seems strange to me, similar to sticking with zig test ... or zig build-exe ... for way too long, instead of writing a build.zig, but maybe that is because I don’t understand the appeal in some specific workflow, why do you want to avoid dependencies?

This is something that works for autodocs:

A "just-enough-functionality" Zig docs server: zds

zds comes in at just 70k in ReleaseSmall on my m1 mac. It’s hardcoded to just serve the Zig autodoc files in the current working directory. Thre’s a sample project in the sample directory with a build.zig that shows one possible way of using this. The relevant code in that sample build.zig: const docs_wf = b.addWriteFiles(); _ = docs_wf.addCopyDirectory(exe.getEmittedDocs(), "docs", .{}); const zds_wf = b.addWriteFiles(); const zds_src = zds_wf.add("zds.zig", \\const…

This dependency from player/build.zig.zon at main - andrewrk/player - Codeberg.org seems to provide more general functionality, that isn’t just for serving autodocs:
GitHub - andrewrk/StaticHttpFileServer: Zig module for serving a directory of files from memory via HTTP

I haven’t used it yet, but was planning to try to use it for a local development build step.