This modifies the build process of Zig to put all of the source files
into libcompiler.a, except main.cpp and userland.cpp.
Next, the build process links main.cpp, userland.cpp, and libcompiler.a
into zig1. userland.cpp is a shim for functions that will later be
replaced with self-hosted implementations.
Next, the build process uses zig1 to build src-self-hosted/stage1.zig
into libuserland.a, which does not depend on any of the things that
are shimmed in userland.cpp, such as translate-c.
Finally, the build process re-links main.cpp and libcompiler.a, except
with libuserland.a instead of userland.cpp. Now the shims are replaced
with .zig code. This provides all of the Zig standard library to the
stage1 C++ compiler, and enables us to move certain things to userland,
such as translate-c.
As a proof of concept I have made the `zig zen` command use text defined
in userland. I added `zig translate-c-2` which is a work-in-progress
reimplementation of translate-c in userland, which currently calls
`std.debug.panic("unimplemented")` and you can see the stack trace makes
it all the way back into the C++ main() function (Thanks LemonBoy for
improving that!).
This could potentially let us move other things into userland, such as
hashing algorithms, the entire cache system, .d file parsing, pretty
much anything that libuserland.a itself doesn't need to depend on.
This can also let us have `zig fmt` in stage1 without the overhead
of child process execution, and without the initial compilation delay
before it gets cached.
See #1964
It is sometimes useful to skip generating of the header file (e.g. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2173), and zig compiler provides an option `--disable-gen-h` to control that behaviour. However, setting `lib.disable_gen_h = true` in a typical `build.zig` didn't append the option to arguments. This commit fixes it and adds a convenient `setDisableGenH` setter.
`--static` is no longer an option. Instead, Zig makes things as static
as possible by default. `-dynamic` can be used to choose a dynamic
library rather than a static one.
`--enable-pic` is a new option. Usually it will be enabled
automatically, but in the case of build-exe with no dynamic libraries
on Linux or freestanding, Zig chooses off by default.
closes#1703closes#1828
Windows doesn't have rpaths for DLLs so we instead add
search paths to Path environment variable when running
an executable that depends on DLLs built with zig build.
* in Zig build scripts, getOutputPath() is no longer a valid function
to call, unless setOutputDir() was used, or within a custom make()
function. Instead there is more convenient API to use which takes
advantage of the caching system. Search this commit diff for
`exe.run()` for an example.
* Zig build by default enables caching. All build artifacts will go
into zig-cache. If you want to access build artifacts in a convenient
location, it is recommended to add an `install` step. Otherwise
you can use the `run()` API mentioned above to execute programs
directly from their location in the cache. Closes#330.
`addSystemCommand` is available for programs not built with Zig
build.
* Please note that Zig does no cache evicting yet. You may have to
manually delete zig-cache directories periodically to keep disk
usage down. It's planned for this to be a simple Least Recently
Used eviction system eventually.
* `--output`, `--output-lib`, and `--output-h` are removed. Instead,
use `--output-dir` which defaults to the current working directory.
Or take advantage of `--cache on`, which will print the main output
path to stdout, and the other artifacts will be in the same directory
with predictable file names. `--disable-gen-h` is available when
one wants to prevent .h file generation.
* `@cImport` is always independently cached now. Closes#2015.
It always writes the generated Zig code to disk which makes debug
info and compile errors better. No more "TODO: remember C source
location to display here"
* Fix .d file parsing. (Fixes the MacOS CI failure)
* Zig no longer creates "temporary files" other than inside a
zig-cache directory.
This breaks the CLI API that Godbolt uses. The suggested new invocation
can be found in this commit diff, in the changes to `test/cli.zig`.
closes#2024
there's a new cli option `--main-pkg-path` which you can use to choose
a different root package directory besides the one inferred from the
root source file
and a corresponding build.zig API:
foo.setMainPkgPath(path)
* CLI: `-target [name]` instead of `--target-*` args.
This matches clang's API.
* `builtin.Environ` renamed to `builtin.Abi`
- likewise `builtin.environ` renamed to `builtin.abi`
* stop hiding the concept of sub-arch. closes#1526
* `zig targets` only shows available targets. closes#438
* include all targets in readme, even those that don't
print with `zig targets` but note they are Tier 4
* refactor target.cpp and make the naming conventions
more consistent
* introduce the concept of a "default C ABI" for a given
OS/Arch combo. As a rule of thumb, if the system compiler
is clang or gcc then the default C ABI is the gnu ABI.
New CLI parameter: --c-source [options] [file]
It even works with `--cache on` when there are transitive dependencies.
Instead of `builder.addCExecutable`, use `builder.addExecutable` and pass
`null` for the root source file. Then use `builder.addCSourceFile`,
which takes the path to the C code, and a list of C compiler args.
Be sure to linkSystemLibrary("c") if you want libc headers to be
available.
Merge TestStep into LibExeObjStep. That was long overdue.
* zig fmt
* std.mem.join takes a slice of slices instead of var args
* std.mem.join takes a separator slice rather than byte,
and always inserts it. Previously it would not insert the separator
if there already was one, violating the documented behavior.
* std.mem.join calculates exactly the correct amount to allocate
and has no call to allocator.shrink()
* bring back joinWindows and joinPosix and the corresponding tests.
it is intended to be able to call these functions from any OS.
* rename std.os.path.resolveSlice to resolve (now resolve takes
a slice of slices instead of var args)
this should actually improve CI times a bit too
See the description at the top of std/os/startup.zig (deleted in this
commit) for a more detailed understanding of what this commit does.
* rename std.mem.split to std.mem.tokenize
* add future deprecation notice to docs
* (unrelated) add note to std.os.path.resolve docs
* std.mem.separate - assert delimiter.len not zero
* fix implementation of std.mem.separate to respect the delimiter
* separate the two iterators to different structs
`std.mem.Allocator.createOne` is renamed to `std.mem.Allocator.create`.
The problem with the previous API is that even after copy elision,
the initalization value passed as a parameter would always be a copy.
With the new API, once copy elision is done, initialization
functions can directly initialize allocated memory in place.
Related:
* #1872
* #1873
* add a --system-linker-hack command line parameter to work around
poor LLD macho code. See #1535
* build.zig correctly handles static as well as dynamic dependencies
when building the self hosted compiler.
- no more unnecessary libxml2 dependency
- a static build on macos produces a completely static self-hosted
compiler for macos (except for libSystem as intended).
closes#1414
std.io.InStream.read now can return less than buffer size
introduce std.io.InStream.readFull for previous behavior
add std.os.File.openWriteNoClobberC
rename std.os.deleteFileWindows to std.os.deleteFileW
remove std.os.deleteFilePosix
add std.os.deleteFileC
std.os.copyFile no longer takes an allocator
std.os.copyFileMode no longer takes an allocator
std.os.AtomicFile no longer takes an allocator
add std.os.renameW
add windows support for std.os.renameC
add a test for std.os.AtomicFile
* error.BadFd is not a valid error code. it would always be a bug to
get this error code.
* merge error.Io with existing error.InputOutput
* merge error.PathNotFound with existing error.FileNotFound.
Not all OS's support both.
* add os.File.openReadC
* add error.BadPathName for windows file operations with invalid
characters
* add os.toPosixPath to help stack allocate a null terminating byte
* add some TODOs for other functions to investigate removing the
allocator requirement
* optimize some implementations to use the alternate functions when
a null byte is already available
* add a missing error.SkipZigTest
* os.selfExePath uses a non-allocating API
* os.selfExeDirPath uses a non-allocating API
* os.path.real uses a non-allocating API
* add os.path.realAlloc and os.path.realC
* convert many windows syscalls to use the W versions (See #534)
* fix race condition in std.event.Channel deinit
* add support to zig build for --no-rosegment
* add passing self-hosted compare-output test for calling a function
* put a global lock on LLD linking because it's not thread safe
* introduce std.atomic.Int
* add src-self-hosted/test.zig which is tested by the main test suite
- it fully utilizes the multithreaded async/await event loop so the
tests should Go Fast
* `stage2/bin/zig build-obj test.zig` is able to spit out an error if 2 exported
functions collide
* ability for `zig test` to accept `--object` and `--assembly`
arguments
* std.build: TestStep supports addLibPath and addObjectFile
Andrew Kelley
Ruslan Prokopchuk
Akuli
Jimmi Holst Christensen
kristopher tate
Andrew Kelley
Jimmi Holst Christensen
Greg V
Josh Wolfe
kristopher tate