Local Dependencies

It is possible to use dependencies available via a local file system path by setting the path attribute. Edit Build.act and add or modify an existing dependency. Set the path attribute to a relative path, e.g.:

dependencies = {
  "foo": (
        path="../foo"
    ),
  "local_lib": (
        path="deps/local_lib"
    ),
}

zig_dependencies = {}

These are best used for dependencies located within the same git repository or similar. All users need to have the same relative path to the dependency so if the paths stretch over multiple repositories, the user needs to keep the paths aligned.

The dependency key is still the import prefix, regardless of whether the dependency is local or fetched from a repository. In the example above, "foo" makes ../foo/src/lib.act available as import foo and ../foo/src/client.act available as import foo.client.