zig

General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software. 

https://ziglang.org/

A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

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Installation

from 

https://github.com/ziglang/zig

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Building Zig From Source

The primary reason to build from source is in order to participate in the development process of Zig itself. Building from source means that you can make changes to Zig itself and then test out those changes.

If your goal is to install a specific version of Zig, you can find pre-built tarballs on the download page. You could also try installing Zig from a package manager. Finally, there is zig-bootstrap to cross-compile an installation of Zig from source for any target. When using zig-bootstrap, be sure to check out the git tag corresponding to the version you want to build, as master branch is not kept in any coherent state.

When building from source, pay attention to which commits failed and succeeded CI checks. Check the commit history and notice which commits succeeded (✔️) or failed (). You will want to check out the latest master branch commit that succeeded in order to avoid bugs in the most recent commits.

If you run into trouble, first refer to Troubleshooting Build Issues, and then ask politely for help in one of the Community spaces.

The following steps are for Unix-like operating systems. For Windows, refer to Building Zig on Windows.

It is recommended to follow Option A after doing a git pull, modifying the cmake line with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release and then following Option B while working on a feature branch, using Option A as your prior build of Zig.

Option A: Use Your System Installed Build Tools

Dependencies

  • cmake >= 2.8.12
  • gcc >= 7.0.0 or clang >= 6.0.0
  • LLVM, Clang, LLD development libraries == 16.x, compiled with the same gcc or clang version above

Instructions

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make install

Please be aware of the handy cmake variable CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH. CMake will look for LLVM and other dependencies in this location first.

For macOS + Homebrew, use these commands:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DZIG_STATIC_LLVM=ON -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$(brew --prefix llvm);$(brew --prefix zstd)"
make install

This produces stage3/bin/zig which is the Zig compiler built by itself.

from 

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Building-Zig-From-Source