base58

Base58 encoding and decoding library for Zig, following the Bitcoin alphabet (123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz).

NOTE: I'm learning Zig with this small lib.

Requirements

Zig 0.16.0 or newer.

Installation

zig fetch --save git+https://github.com/you/base58#main

In your build.zig:

const base58_dep = b.dependency("base58", .{ .target = target, .optimize = optimize });
exe.root_module.addImport("base58", base58_dep.module("base58"));

Usage

const base58 = @import("base58");

// Encode
const encoded = try base58.encode(allocator, &bytes);
defer allocator.free(encoded);

// Decode
const decoded = try base58.decode(allocator, encoded);
defer allocator.free(decoded);

Both functions allocate the result — the caller is responsible for freeing it.

API

pub fn encode(allocator: Allocator, src: []const u8) ![]u8
pub fn decode(allocator: Allocator, src: []const u8) ![]u8

pub const Base58Error = error{ Decode, InvalidCharacter };

Running tests

zig build test