# ZXingCpp

ZXingCpp is a .NET wrapper for [zxing-cpp](https://github.com/zxing-cpp/zxing-cpp).

There is a NuGet package available: https://www.nuget.org/packages/ZXingCpp.

## Usage

See either the [ZXingCpp/README.md](ZXingCpp/README.md) or the [ZXingCpp.Demo](ZXingCpp.Demo) project.

To run the `ZXingCpp.Demo` sample program, it is important that the dotnet runtime finds the native
`ZXing[.dll|.so|.dylib]` in your path. E.g. on Linux a complete command line would look like this

```sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<ZXing.so-path> dotnet run --project ZXingCpp.Demo -- ../../test/samples/multi-1/1.png
```

## Benchmarking

To compare the performance of this .NET wrapper project with other available barcode scanner .NET libraries,
I started the project [zxing-bench](https://github.com/axxel/zxing-bench). The README contains a few
results to get an idea.

## Release howto (for internal use)

 * download `*-latest-exp-artifacts` from gha page and copy binaries to `runtimes`
 * update `Version` in `ZXingCpp.csproj`
 * `dotnet pack`
 * `dotnet nuget push ZXingCpp/bin/Release/ZXingCpp.<version>.nupkg -s https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json -k <api-key>`