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This library implements Kaitai Struct API for Ruby.
Kaitai Struct is a declarative language used for describe various binary data structures, laid out in files or in memory: i.e. binary file formats, network stream packet formats, etc.
Further reading:
Gemfile
If your project uses Bundler, just include the line
gem 'kaitai-struct'
in your project's Gemfile
.
gem install
If you have a RubyGems package manager installed, you can use command
gem install kaitai-struct
to install this runtime library.
This library is intentionally kept as very simple, one .rb
file.
You can just copy it to your project from this repository.
Usually you won't require
it directly, it will be loaded
by Ruby source code generated by Kaitai Struct compiler.
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We found that kaitai-struct demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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