Add Dependency

Add a dependency to your project by using acton pkg add and providing the URL to the project and a local reference name.

In this case we add the example foo package as a dependency.

acton pkg add https://github.com/actonlang/foo/archive/refs/heads/main.zip foo

This will fetch the dependency and add it to the build.act.json file of your local project, resulting in something like:

{
    "dependencies": {
        "foo": {
            "url": "https://github.com/actonlang/foo/archive/refs/heads/main.zip",
            "hash": "1220cd47344f8a1e7fe86741c7b0257a63567b4c17ad583bddf690eedd672032abdd"
        }
    },
    "zig_dependencies": {}
}

The foo package provides a single foo module with a foo function (that appropriately returns foo). We can now access it from our main actor:

import foo

actor main(env):
    print(foo.foo())
    env.exit(0)