clipboard

Provide copying and pasting text (UTF-8) to the clipboard for Zig.

platform support

• MacOS
• Linux, Unix (requires 'xclip' or 'xsel' command to be installed)
• Windows

usage

install

zig fetch --save https://github.com/dgv/clipboard/archive/refs/heads/main.zip

import (build.zig)

...
exe.root_module.addImport("clipboard", b.dependency("clipboard", .{}).module("clipboard"));
b.installArtifact(exe);

sample

const clipboard = @import("clipboard");
const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() !void {
    try clipboard.write("Zig ⚡");
    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{clipboard.read() catch ""});
}