libssh2

This is libssh2, packaged for Zig.

Installation

First, update your build.zig.zon:

# Initialize a `zig build` project if you haven't already
zig init
zig fetch --save git+https://github.com/allyourcodebase/libssh2.git#libssh2-1.11.1

You can then import libssh2 in your build.zig with:

constlibssh2_dependency=b.dependency("libssh2", .{
.target=target,
.optimize=optimize,
});
your_exe.root_module.linkLibrary(libssh2_dependency.artifact("ssh2"));

Build Options

libssh2 offers a few options which you can control like so:

constlibssh2_dependency=b.dependency("libssh2", .{
.target=target,
.optimize=optimize,
.zlib=true, // links to zlib for payload compression if enabled (default=true)
.strip=true, // Strip debug information (default=false)
.linkage=.static, // Whether to link statically or dynamically (default=static)
.@"crypto-backend"=.auto, // auto will to default to wincng on windows, openssl everywhere else. (default=auto)
.@"link-system-crypto-backend"=true, // If enabled will link against system libraries (default=true)
});