Rather than stuffing configuration information into the Zig binary, the
build script reads it from config.h. This solves a problem for package
maintainers and improves the use case of deterministic builds.
closes#3758
This caused link errors in c++ code because it was not correct to pass
these flags to child codegens. And that was the only reason to detect
these flags. Otherwise we can safely rely on non-explicitly-detected
flag forwarding.
This is only the first step; it makes zig cc recognize -z and append it to the linker args, but the linker arg parsing doesn't support -z yet so it will just give the warning 'unsupported linker arg: -z'
* `-isystem` instead of `-I` for system include directories
fixes a problem with native system directories interfering with zig's
bundled libc.
* separate Stage2Target.is_native into Stage2Target.is_native_os and
Stage2Target.is_native_cpu.
* The generated options data file is sorted now in a way that
makes sure longer prefixes are first. This prevents collisions
with some parameters.
* Add support for `-fPIC`, `-fno-PIC`, `-nostdlib`, `-shared`,
`-rdynamic`, `-Wl,-soname`, `-Wl,-rpath`
* Better support for `-o`.
* Disable generating h files
* Shared library support.
* Better positional argument support.
Previously the zig build system incorrectly assumed that the only build
artifact was a binary. Now, when you enable the cache, only the output
dir is printed to stdout, and the zig build system iterates over the
files in that directory, copying them to the output directory.
To support this change:
* Add `std.os.renameat`, `std.os.renameatZ`, and `std.os.renameatW`.
* Fix `std.os.linux.renameat` not compiling due to typos.
* Deprecate `std.fs.updateFile` and `std.fs.updateFileMode`.
* Add `std.fs.Dir.updateFile`, which supports using open directory
handles for both the source and destination paths, as well as an
options parameter which allows overriding the mode.
* Update `std.fs.AtomicFile` to support operating based on an open
directory handle. Instead of `std.fs.AtomicFile.init`, use
`std.fs.Dir.atomicFile`.
* `std.fs.AtomicFile` deinit() better handles the situation when the
rename fails but the temporary file still exists, by still
attempting to remove the temporary file.
* `std.fs.Dir.openFileWindows` is moved to `std.os.windows.OpenFileW`.
* `std.os.RenameError` gains the error codes `NoDevice`,
`SharingViolation`, and `PipeBusy` which have been observed from
Windows.
Closes#4733
* re-introduce `std.build.Target` which is distinct from `std.Target`.
`std.build.Target` wraps `std.Target` so that it can be annotated as
"the native target" or an explicitly specified target.
* `std.Target.Os` is moved to `std.Target.Os.Tag`. The former is now a
struct which has the tag as well as version range information.
* `std.elf` gains some more ELF header constants.
* `std.Target.parse` gains the ability to parse operating system
version ranges as well as glibc version.
* Added `std.Target.isGnuLibC()`.
* self-hosted dynamic linker detection and glibc version detection.
This also adds the improved logic using `/usr/bin/env` rather than
invoking the system C compiler to find the dynamic linker when zig
is statically linked. Related: #2084
Note: this `/usr/bin/env` code is work-in-progress.
* `-target-glibc` CLI option is removed in favor of the new `-target`
syntax. Example: `-target x86_64-linux-gnu.2.27`
closes#1907
