This project builds libpng with Zig. These are not Zig language bindings to the project. The goal of this project is to enable the upstream project to be used with the Zig package manager. Downstream users may also not be Zig language users, they may just be using Zig as a build system.

This is not strictly a fork (the source for the upstream project is copied into the "upstream" directory unmodified unless noted). For security reasons, you can verify the contents using the verify.sh script. Please read the shell script contents, it is written in a plain way.

I implore that you do not blindly trust me -- pin this repository to a specific version and verify the checksums match yourself.

Create a build.zig.zon like so:

.{
    .name = "my-project",
    .version = "0.0.0",
    .dependencies = .{
        .libpng = .{
            .url = "https://github.com/mitchellh/zig-build-libpng/archive/<git-ref-here>.tar.gz",
            .hash = "12208070233b17de6be05e32af096a6760682b48598323234824def41789e993432c",
        },
    },
}

And in your build.zig:

const libpng = b.dependency("libpng", .{ .target = target, .optimize = optimize });
exe.linkLibrary(libpng.artifact("png"));

In your code you can now @cImport the project.

This project makes no guarantee to stay up to date with every released version of the upstream project. If you'd like to contribute a new version, please do and we will tag it accordingly.

The current version is always available in upstream.txt. This is the Git commit hash of the "upstream" folder.

You can update to any arbitrary upstream Git ref using update.sh:

$ ./update.sh HEAD

You can verify that the contents match upstream by running verify.sh:

$ ./verify.sh

An exit status of 0 means it was successful.