Linking Libs

[outer night]

I am building a tiny engine on top of raylib, and I am confused about how I would need to link libs.
currently my structure is as follows:

engine/
- libs/
--- raylib/
--- app/
--- ecs/
--- render/
- src/

both app as well as render are zig-libs, and both depend on raylib.
but adding @import("../raylib") doesn't seem to be allowed.
Do I need to clone raylib in both app as well as render folders? Or is there another way?

well, thinking about it, if both are supposed to be usable individually, they both do need their own copy.

[dark rapids]

Should work if you do all your building from the top-level? so engine/build.zig would build either of your libs and provide them with raylib?

Each lib might have their own build.zig that have functions for building their components, with options to pass in any other dependencies.

[wraith tartan]

If u will place build.zig above src folder everything should work

Also, use exe.addPackagePath for pure zig libs

For import aliasing, if speaking simple

[outer night]

kann I add build.zig as package instead of main.zig?

there might be build steps involved in the libs build.zig that are not apparent from the src/main.zig alone.
unless it automatically looks for a build.zig for that main.zig?

[wraith tartan]

nah, you can't