kassane / xwin-zig-test

Testing Zig with xwin - Microsoft CRT headers and libraries, and Windows SDK headers and libraries

Zig with XWin (Experimental)

What is xwin?

A utility for downloading and packaging the Microsoft CRT headers and libraries, and Windows SDK headers and libraries needed for compiling and linking programs targeting Windows.

Note

It's important to remind that the libraries and headers are owned by Microsoft. This experiment is for testing purposes only. Possibly to make it easier to build hermetically.

Requirements

• xwin
• zig 0.11 or higher

Testing

The main targets for this experiment are:

Target	Native	Build	Host
msvc-x64	Yes	🆗	Windows
msvc-x64	No	🆗	Linux
msvc-x64	No	🆗	MacOS
msvc-x86	Yes	🆗	Windows
msvc-x86	No	🆗	Linux
msvc-x86	No	🆗	MacOS
msvc-arm64	Yes	🆗	Windows
msvc-arm64	No	🆗	Linux
msvc-arm64	No	🆗	MacOS

Note: On linux the LLD is case-sensitive. maybe solve don't use xwin --disable-symlinks flag. However, it breaks the macos build!

xwin-zig-test's Issues

msvc test with xwin

cc: @Jake-Shadle @messense

References

• ziglang/zig#4785
• ziglang/zig#5312
• ziglang/zig#15448