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[rayfcsu]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong. PQClean was not in the original repo so I cloned the commit version you had used, but it still didn't work. Only thing I blocked out was the file path because it contains my local username / the school I go to. I'm also new to Zig, so it could be a beginner's mistake as well.

Thanks for any help you are able to provide, if you even see this.

• shmookiez

[rayfcsu]

oh wait i might be dumb. i didn't follow the steps on PQClean's repo. i'll report back after i do

edit: okay yeah i'm still lost

[OnlyF0uR]

Cloning the repository with submodules should work out of the box, or at least it did when I wrote the code a while ago. I can check it in a bit though to see if something is broken.

[rayfcsu]

Thank you! I'll keep digging to see if it's something I did. I'm trying to do time comparisons between Zig, C, and Rust for my thesis, so any help is appreciated 😀. Thanks!

[OnlyF0uR]

I did the following to get it to work:

1. Downloaded the repository recursively.
2. Changed directory into pqc-falcon-1024 (other submodules should work similarly).
3. Ran zig build test.

The build script automatically compiles PQClean. I presume you already tried the same steps, so it might just need some changes to run on platforms other than Windows. I tested it with Zig 0.14.1 and 0.15.0, Make 4.4.1, and GCC 13.2.0.

Also, note that this is just a thin Zig wrapper around PQClean, which is a C library. Essentially, you would be testing the C implementation together with the Zig FFI.