How are files organized into packages?

[chenzhekl]

Hi,

Thank you for the great language. I am learning Odin and get confused about the package organization. It seems quite close to Go but I cannot be sure about that. I tried looking for the answer in the documentation but got nothing. Could anyone please explain it to me?

Thanks

[Tetralux]

This is a bit late, but basically: packages are just folders with .odin files in them.
You can import them with import "path/to/folder", with the path relative to the current file.
You can also import packages from a collection: import "stuff:path/to/folder" if you pass -collection:stuff=path/to/root/folder.

[Inc0n]

Hi, if you don't mind me asking some further questions:

So individual files from a package cannot be imported, but the whole package will? Is that what it implies.

[Kelimion]

That is correct, all* files from the package will be imported.

But only the procedures that are used within that package will be code-genned and linked, so you're not paying for unused parts of the package.

You can also make a package with a single file in it and import that, which is as simple as making a directory and putting a .odin file in it.

• There are the *_windows.odin, *_linux.odin suffixes so those are only imported for those build targets, and there are // build comments at the top of packages, but by and large: Yes, all files within a package are imported.