Add support of BLAKE3 hashes

[ghost]

Well in title is there anyway to do implement into gtkhash?

[ghost]

And also how can i make batch file that launches .exe and then launch hashes

[tristanheaven]

Yes it's possible, but it would be easier if BLAKE3-team created a library with a C API - like BLAKE2/libb2.

[tristanheaven]

For the batch file, you can add file paths as command arguments and hashing should start automatically.

[ghost]

For the batch file, you can add file paths as command arguments and hashing should start automatically.

How it should be look?

gtkhash.exe -C:\Hashes\hashes.txt right?

[oconnor663]

Yes it's possible, but it would be easier if BLAKE3-team created a library with a C API - like BLAKE2/libb2.

You can find the official C implementation here. (Maybe we should make that more discoverable? The top level readme links to it, but it's pretty far down.) Single-threaded performance is equivalent to the Rust implementation, because they use the same assembly files under the hood. Multi-threading isn't supported yet though.

[tristanheaven]

@oconnor663 It's fine, I found it there. The issue is that the C implementation doesn't have a build system and pkg-config file which would make it suitable for packaging in a distribution. Unless it gets included in another library (e.g. openssl), every application will need to have the same architecture/OS-specific build handling, or only use the portable C version.

[oconnor663]

Yeah that's a problem. My worry has been that I don't know how to provide a single build system that's useful to different callers, for example both callers using autotools and callers using Visual Studio. I've been meaning to try something with CMake, but I don't have enough experience to know in advance whether that's going to be useful to everyone. Do you know if that's a good approach? Anyway, apologies for derailing this thread :)