How to use examples dir in library build.zig | Zig Programming Language | Page 1

torpid crescent Jul 18, 2026, 10:21 PM

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How do I reference a subdirectory when trying to open an examples/ dir with examples for my library? It worked locally when I just opened cwd() and accessed "examples/" but fails when using the library as a dependency.

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ripe burrow Jul 19, 2026, 2:54 AM

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if the dir is not listed in .paths in its own build.zig.zon then it wont be included when downloading the dependency

torpid crescent Jul 19, 2026, 11:11 AM

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I already added it

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That didn't seem to fix my problem

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I ended up just writing a list of files in my examples dir and using that instead of traversing lol

ripe burrow Jul 19, 2026, 11:15 AM

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yeah i would recomended that solution
but it sounded like you couldnt access examples at all

torpid crescent Jul 19, 2026, 11:41 AM

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It let me access them, I just wasn't sure how I convert a LazyPath to something I can access

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So then I could just do b.path("examples") and somehow use that

ripe burrow Jul 19, 2026, 11:44 AM

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ah you shouldnt do io in the build.zig, especially after the changes on master

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which is why listing the examples out is recomended

#How to use examples dir in library build.zig