A Rust crate browser for GNOME and Cocoa.

It is very minimal in design and implementation and written in Zig.

On macOS this application depends on my Objective-Zig library.

Building does not install anything on the system. Instead the binary can install the system files by itself:

zig build
zig-out/bin/crates --install # or just -i

Options for running are:

zig build run-cocoa # Cocoa frontend, macOS only
zig build run-gnome # GNOME frontend, linux and macOS (but it's so bad on macOS it isn't usable)
zig build run       # Default frontend for the target platform

Installing is somewhat unfinished right now.

Building depends only on the libadwaita-1 shared library and headers, and of course the Zig compiler. It may not build with the latest compiler, it was last tested with 0.14.0-dev.1511+54b668f8a

Cross compilation is possible but requires shared libraries to be present for the target. In fact it should be able to cross compile from a completely different (unix-like) operating system.

Use this command (with the libraries present) to cross compile and create tar.xz bundles for flatpak:

zig build bundle

There are useful configuration options you can specify, use Zig to query what they are. The most important one is -Dstable which will configure the window to use the default appearance instead of the development window and remove all references to it being a dev build. It should only be used for stable releases of the application.