Notcurses is a moderm library for building terminal UIs with advanced graphics support.
This is a demo showing how to use it with Zig programming language.
Thanks to Zig's seamless C interop the library can be used directly without wrapper bindings.
- Install Notcurses dependencies
- using Nix:
nix-shell - for Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libncurses-dev libreadline-dev libunistring-dev libqrcodegen-dev zlib1g-dev
- using Nix:
- Install Zig (version 0.11.0)
- Get Notcurses to compile from sources (since distributions don't often package latest versions):
git clone https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses.git deps/notcurses
cd deps/notcurses
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DUSE_MULTIMEDIA=none -DUSE_PANDOC=OFF ..
# We just need `cmake` to generate some headers, no need to actually `make` since rest will be handled by Zig
# In case of errors, try `git checkout v3.0.9` and re-run cmake as I tested it with this version.Build and run the demo:
zig build runOr build and run the binary separately:
zig build
./zig-cache/run/demoThe source of this demo is actually written in Liz, which is Zig dialect with lispy syntax that transpiles down to Zig code. If you feel adventurous to explore land of parentheses you can download Liz and compile sources with:
liz src/*.liz && zig buildSee also the demo implemented in Clojure.
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