06:40 <FromGitter> <Dan-Do> Use the shard crystal_lib or crystal_binding (I dont remember the name exactly) to generate the binding for you.

09:21 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> > For now you can use this as a tool to generate bindings from a lib declaration. ⏎ A lib declaration is something like this? ⏎ ⏎ ```@[Link("pcre")] ⏎ lib LibPCRE ⏎ end``` [https://gitter.im/crystal-lang/crystal?at=639edb8689c38775e768a68c]

09:22 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> But I'm not sure what to put inside `Link` because that spng lib isn't really something you can install

09:22 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> in C you just put it in your project

09:23 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> so how do I include the .c and .h files locally within my project?

09:23 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> @Dan-Do

09:26 <FromGitter> <naqvis> `Link` annotation is to define the dynamic library which need to be linked at link time. You have two options here, either compile `libspng` as a shared module and use that in `Link` annotation, another option would be to compile `libspng` as a static library and do a static linking at compile time.

09:27 <FromGitter> <naqvis> Choice is yours. Either you have your shard users, download and compile the `libspng` as dynamic library, or you provide the scripts with your shard and perform compilation of C files and linkage with crystal

09:28 <FromGitter> <naqvis> Remember, Crystal doesn't deal with compilation of C or other foreign languages, all it provides is a mechanism to integrate external libraries via FFI

09:29 <FromGitter> <naqvis> so refer to documentation of `libspng` on how to proceed with compilation

09:57 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> Well, I want my shard users to not have to do anything

09:57 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> run the executable and everything works out of the box

11:39 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> @Dan-Do crystal_lib doesn't work

11:41 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> it outputs an error for me ⏎ https://hastebin.skyra.pw/atijokuhim.bash

16:49 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> I've been working on manually binding to the lib

16:49 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> but I got an idea

16:49 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> couldn't I just write a function in a C program that calls certain functions from that lib and returns the finished image data?

16:50 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> then I could just bind to that one self written function

16:51 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> i think that's what i'll prolly do

19:28 <FromGitter> <oprypin:matrix.org> @azurelmao: no that's the harder way

20:46 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> I actually just ended up using a native Crystal lib called Stumpy

20:47 <FromGitter> <azurelmao> Sometimes, giving up on something is the wiser choice