Anyline

Anyline is a line processing library intended to be a drop-in replacement for GNU Readline. Anyline leverages Zig's cross compilation toolchain to bring the library to not only Linux and MacOS, but also Windows.

Development Status

Anyline is a work in progress. More features and platforms will be added. Keep an eye on the releases for more details.

Installation

Build from source

Firstly, you need to install Zig 0.15.1. Then, zig build install will produce a static library at zig-out/lib and a header file at zig-out/include.

Add as a Zig dependency

First, update your build.zig.zon:

zig fetch --save https://github.com/c-shinkle/anyline/archive/refs/tags/0.1.0.tar.gz

Next, add this snippet to your build.zig script:

const anyline_dep = b.dependency("anyline", .{
    .target = target,
    .optimize = optimize,
});
your_module.addImport("anyline", anyline_dep);

Supported platforms

Operating System	Architecture	Terminal Emulator	Shell
Windows 11	x86_64	Microsoft Terminal	PowerShell 7
Linux	x86_64	Ghostty, GNOME	Fish, Bash
MacOS	aarch64	Ghostty, iTerm2, MacOS Terminal	Fish, Zsh
FreeBSD	x86_64	XFCE Terminal	Fish, Sh