add hack to allow import in build scripts

.gitea/workflows/build.yaml

@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@ jobs:
           version: 0.13.0
       - name: Run tests
         run: zig build test --verbose
+      # Zig build scripts don't have the ability to import depenedencies directly
+      # (https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/18164). We can allow downstream
+      # build scripts to import aws with a few tweaks, but we can't @import("src/aws.zig")
+      # until we have our models built. So we have to have the build script
+      # basically modified, only during packaging, to allow this use case
+      #
       # Zig package manager expects everything to be inside a directory in the archive,
       # which it then strips out on download. So we need to shove everything inside a directory
       # the way GitHub/Gitea does for repo archives
@@ -33,6 +39,7 @@ jobs:
       # should be using git archive, but we need our generated code to be part of it
       - name: Package source code with generated models
         run: |
+          sed -i 's#// UNCOMMENT AFTER MODEL GEN TO USE IN BUILD SCRIPTS //##' build.zig
           tar -czf ${{ runner.temp }}/${{ github.sha }}-with-models.tar.gz \
             --format ustar \
             --exclude 'zig-*' \

build.zig

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ const Builder = @import("std").Build;
 
 const models_subdir = "codegen/sdk-codegen/aws-models/"; // note will probably not work on windows
 
-pub const aws = @import("src/aws.zig");
+// UNCOMMENT AFTER MODEL GEN TO USE IN BUILD SCRIPTS //pub const aws = @import("src/aws.zig");
 
 const test_targets = [_]std.Target.Query{
     .{}, // native