Writing a plugin in Zig

[Khalid-Nowaf]

Would it be possible to write a plugin in Zig language?

[dominiklohmann]

Hey and welcome to Tenzir!

There's nothing stopping you from doing so on a technical level. The plugin entrypoint is a set of functions with C linkage with fixed names, and for C++ we offer a convenience macro in libtenzir and build scaffolding in our CMake tooling that make it a lot easier to write a plugin.

When you want to create a plugin in Zig, you either have to recreate what our convenience macro and CMake code do in Zig, or write the plugin entrypoint in C++ and link it against a library written in Zig that you call into.

[Khalid-Nowaf]

Thanks for the quick answer!

I will try to first option, and it would be a great way to learn more about Tenzir.

I'm very excited btw, Tenzir looks very promising.

[dominiklohmann]

For reference, take a look at the TenzirRegisterPlugin CMake function and the various definitions of the TENZIR_REGISTER_PLUGIN C++ macros.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. We also have a community Discord in which all devs here are quite responsive. I'd be very curious to learn more about your use cases.

[Khalid-Nowaf]

Thanks for the reference @dominiklohmann!

I will keep you posted on Discord.