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Alessandro De Blasis c1e616c6cd libghostty: add ghostty_free for cross-runtime memory safety
On Windows, Zig's built-in libc and MSVC's CRT maintain separate
heaps, so calling free() on memory allocated by the library causes
undefined behavior. Add ghostty_free() that frees through the same
allocator that performed the allocation, making it safe on all
platforms.

Update format_alloc docs and all examples to use ghostty_free()
instead of free().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-03-23 20:52:02 +01:00
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c-vt-cmake-static

Demonstrates consuming libghostty-vt as a static library from a CMake project using FetchContent. Creates a terminal, writes VT sequences into it, and formats the screen contents as plain text.

Building

cd example/c-vt-cmake-static
cmake -B build
cmake --build build
./build/c_vt_cmake_static

To build against a local checkout instead of fetching from GitHub:

cmake -B build -DFETCHCONTENT_SOURCE_DIR_GHOSTTY=../..
cmake --build build