gpanders / zig

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

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

Resources

• Introduction
• Download & Documentation
• Community
• Contributing
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Community Projects

Building from Source

Note that you can download a binary of master branch.

Stage 1: Build Zig from C++ Source Code

Dependencies

POSIX

• cmake >= 2.8.5
• gcc >= 5.0.0 or clang >= 3.6.0
• LLVM, Clang, LLD development libraries == 10.x, compiled with the same gcc or clang version above
  • Use the system package manager, or build from source.

Windows

• cmake >= 3.15.3
• Microsoft Visual Studio. Supported versions:
  • 2015 (version 14)
  • 2017 (version 15.8)
  • 2019 (version 16)
• LLVM, Clang, LLD development libraries == 10.x
  • Use the pre-built binaries or build from source.

Instructions

POSIX

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make install

MacOS

brew install cmake llvm
brew outdated llvm || brew upgrade llvm
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$(brew --prefix llvm)
make install

You will now run into this issue: homebrew and llvm 10 packages in apt.llvm.org are broken with undefined reference to getPollyPluginInfo

Please help upstream LLVM and Homebrew solve this issue, there is nothing Zig can do about it. See that issue for a workaround you can do in the meantime.

Windows

See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Building-Zig-on-Windows