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K0IN1mo ago

Men, the zig toolchain is just my goto c compiler. ty Andrew!

From Andrew’s post

> Zig 0.16.0 is tagged. Release notes are just about completed and will be published in about 20 hours when the tarballs finish building. As it turns out, it takes a while to build LLVM 27 times on one computer! That's how many different targets we provide compiler binaries for now - all cross compiled from one host.

metaltyphoon1mo ago

I don’t use zig daily, I rather use Rust, but damn this is awesome. I wish Rust would do this too.

orf1mo ago

Do what? They do provide a significant number of prebuilt binaries?

metaltyphoon1mo ago

Rust relies on a linker being installed (hopefully this will change). There is a lot of Rust libraries that are c wrappers and therefore you will need C compiler installed.

Zig on the other hand ships with everything I need to buy from one host to multiple targets out of the box.

overflyer1mo ago

I just saw in their CI pipeline that the build for x86_64 Linux failed. Their error however is different from the one occurring on my Linux machine, where the build complains when it is almost done that the put method needs 2 and not 3 parameters.

What does it all mean Andrew... do we have to wait longer now. THE AGONY.... Oh captain, my captain... :D

mlugg1mo ago

> the build for x86_64 Linux failed.

Hm, are you referring to the CI failure on the x86_64-linux-release CI job on the current tip of master on the main Zig repository? That one's a flaky test, not indicative of a serious problem. (We usually just disable flaky tests, but this particular one I'm leaving on for the moment to try and gather a little more information about it.)

The tarball builds for the 0.16.0 release are still moving along okay: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/www.ziglang.org/actions/runs/20...

overflyer1mo ago

I am so happy to here that thanks :) Ignore my complaint about the failing Zig build. I am using a script that also builds ZLS afterwards and it was ZLS that was failing not Zig. So sorry.

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K0IN1mo ago

Men, the zig toolchain is just my goto c compiler. ty Andrew!

praveer13OP1mo ago

From Andrew’s post

metaltyphoon1mo ago

I don’t use zig daily, I rather use Rust, but damn this is awesome. I wish Rust would do this too.

orf1mo ago

Do what? They do provide a significant number of prebuilt binaries?

metaltyphoon1mo ago

Rust relies on a linker being installed (hopefully this will change). There is a lot of Rust libraries that are c wrappers and therefore you will need C compiler installed.

Zig on the other hand ships with everything I need to buy from one host to multiple targets out of the box.

overflyer1mo ago

What does it all mean Andrew... do we have to wait longer now. THE AGONY.... Oh captain, my captain... :D

mlugg1mo ago

> the build for x86_64 Linux failed.

The tarball builds for the 0.16.0 release are still moving along okay: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/www.ziglang.org/actions/runs/20...

overflyer1mo ago

I am so happy to here that thanks :) Ignore my complaint about the failing Zig build. I am using a script that also builds ZLS afterwards and it was ZLS that was failing not Zig. So sorry.

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