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2025-10-30std.debug.lockStderrWriter: also return ttyconfMatthew Lugg
`std.Io.tty.Config.detect` may be an expensive check (e.g. involving syscalls), and doing it every time we need to print isn't really necessary; under normal usage, we can compute the value once and cache it for the whole program's execution. Since anyone outputting to stderr may reasonably want this information (in fact they are very likely to), it makes sense to cache it and return it from `lockStderrWriter`. Call sites who do not need it will experience no significant overhead, and can just ignore the TTY config with a `const w, _` destructure.
2025-10-29std: updating to std.Io interfaceAndrew Kelley
got the build runner compiling
2025-10-29std.zig.system: upgrade to std.Io.ReaderAndrew Kelley
2025-10-18std.Build: do not expect server protocol for tests using immature backendsmlugg
For instance, when running a Zig test using the self-hosted aarch64 backend, this logic was previously expecting `std.zig.Server` to be used, but the default test runner intentionally does not do this because the backend is too immature to handle it. On 'master', this is causing sporadic failures; on this branch, they became consistent failures.
2025-10-18std.Build: separate errors from failed commandsmlugg
Recording the command in a separate field will give the build runner more freedom to choose how and when the command should be printed.
2025-10-08std.Build: duplicate sub_path for LazyPath's dependency varianttehlordvortex
2025-09-30replace usages of old std.debug APIsmlugg
src/crash_handler.zig is still TODO though, i am planning bigger changes there
2025-08-29std.Io: delete GenericReaderAndrew Kelley
and delete deprecated alias std.io
2025-08-11std.ArrayList: make unmanaged the defaultAndrew Kelley
2025-08-01build system: replace fuzzing UI with build UI, add time reportmlugg
This commit replaces the "fuzzer" UI, previously accessed with the `--fuzz` and `--port` flags, with a more interesting web UI which allows more interactions with the Zig build system. Most notably, it allows accessing the data emitted by a new "time report" system, which allows users to see which parts of Zig programs take the longest to compile. The option to expose the web UI is `--webui`. By default, it will listen on `[::1]` on a random port, but any IPv6 or IPv4 address can be specified with e.g. `--webui=[::1]:8000` or `--webui=127.0.0.1:8000`. The options `--fuzz` and `--time-report` both imply `--webui` if not given. Currently, `--webui` is incompatible with `--watch`; specifying both will cause `zig build` to exit with a fatal error. When the web UI is enabled, the build runner spawns the web server as soon as the configure phase completes. The frontend code consists of one HTML file, one JavaScript file, two CSS files, and a few Zig source files which are built into a WASM blob on-demand -- this is all very similar to the old fuzzer UI. Also inherited from the fuzzer UI is that the build system communicates with web clients over a WebSocket connection. When the build finishes, if `--webui` was passed (i.e. if the web server is running), the build runner does not terminate; it continues running to serve web requests, allowing interactive control of the build system. In the web interface is an overall "status" indicating whether a build is currently running, and also a list of all steps in this build. There are visual indicators (colors and spinners) for in-progress, succeeded, and failed steps. There is a "Rebuild" button which will cause the build system to reset the state of every step (note that this does not affect caching) and evaluate the step graph again. If `--time-report` is passed to `zig build`, a new section of the interface becomes visible, which associates every build step with a "time report". For most steps, this is just a simple "time taken" value. However, for `Compile` steps, the compiler communicates with the build system to provide it with much more interesting information: time taken for various pipeline phases, with a per-declaration and per-file breakdown, sorted by slowest declarations/files first. This feature is still in its early stages: the data can be a little tricky to understand, and there is no way to, for instance, sort by different properties, or filter to certain files. However, it has already given us some interesting statistics, and can be useful for spotting, for instance, particularly complex and slow compile-time logic. Additionally, if a compilation uses LLVM, its time report includes the "LLVM pass timing" information, which was previously accessible with the (now removed) `-ftime-report` compiler flag. To make time reports more useful, ZIR and compilation caches are ignored by the Zig compiler when they are enabled -- in other words, `Compile` steps *always* run, even if their result should be cached. This means that the flag can be used to analyze a project's compile time without having to repeatedly clear cache directory, for instance. However, when using `-fincremental`, updates other than the first will only show you the statistics for what changed on that particular update. Notably, this gives us a fairly nice way to see exactly which declarations were re-analyzed by an incremental update. If `--fuzz` is passed to `zig build`, another section of the web interface becomes visible, this time exposing the fuzzer. This is quite similar to the fuzzer UI this commit replaces, with only a few cosmetic tweaks. The interface is closer than before to supporting multiple fuzz steps at a time (in line with the overall strategy for this build UI, the goal will be for all of the fuzz steps to be accessible in the same interface), but still doesn't actually support it. The fuzzer UI looks quite different under the hood: as a result, various bugs are fixed, although other bugs remain. For instance, viewing the source code of any file other than the root of the main module is completely broken (as on master) due to some bogus file-to-module assignment logic in the fuzzer UI. Implementation notes: * The `lib/build-web/` directory holds the client side of the web UI. * The general server logic is in `std.Build.WebServer`. * Fuzzing-specific logic is in `std.Build.Fuzz`. * `std.Build.abi` is the new home of `std.Build.Fuzz.abi`, since it now relates to the build system web UI in general. * The build runner now has an **actual** general-purpose allocator, because thanks to `--watch` and `--webui`, the process can be arbitrarily long-lived. The gpa is `std.heap.DebugAllocator`, but the arena remains backed by `std.heap.page_allocator` for efficiency. I fixed several crashes caused by conflation of `gpa` and `arena` in the build runner and `std.Build`, but there may still be some I have missed. * The I/O logic in `std.Build.WebServer` is pretty gnarly; there are a *lot* of threads involved. I anticipate this situation improving significantly once the `std.Io` interface (with concurrency support) is introduced.
2025-07-20Support passing `std.zig.BuildId` to `b.dependency()`Carl Åstholm
2025-07-20Support passing enum slices to `b.dependency()`Carl Åstholm
2025-07-20Coerce slice-like arguments passed to `b.dependency()`Carl Åstholm
You can now pass string literals as options.
2025-07-20Dupe string optionsCarl Åstholm
2025-07-20Serialize float options using the hexadecimal formatCarl Åstholm
This ensures no information is lost when the value is round-tripped.
2025-07-20Support passing null to `b.dependency()`Carl Åstholm
Both null literals and optionals are supported.
2025-07-11Remove numerous things deprecated during the 0.14 release cycleLinus Groh
Basically everything that has a direct replacement or no uses left. Notable omissions: - std.ArrayHashMap: Too much fallout, needs a separate cleanup. - std.debug.runtime_safety: Too much fallout. - std.heap.GeneralPurposeAllocator: Lots of references to it remain, not a simple find and replace as "debug allocator" is not equivalent to "general purpose allocator". - std.io.Reader: Is being reworked at the moment. - std.unicode.utf8Decode(): No replacement, needs a new API first. - Manifest backwards compat options: Removal would break test data used by TestFetchBuilder. - panic handler needs to be a namespace: Many tests still rely on it being a function, needs a separate cleanup.
2025-07-07fix build runnerAndrew Kelley
2025-07-07std.fmt: breaking API changesAndrew Kelley
added adapter to AnyWriter and GenericWriter to help bridge the gap between old and new API make std.testing.expectFmt work at compile-time std.fmt no longer has a dependency on std.unicode. Formatted printing was never properly unicode-aware. Now it no longer pretends to be. Breakage/deprecations: * std.fs.File.reader -> std.fs.File.deprecatedReader * std.fs.File.writer -> std.fs.File.deprecatedWriter * std.io.GenericReader -> std.io.Reader * std.io.GenericWriter -> std.io.Writer * std.io.AnyReader -> std.io.Reader * std.io.AnyWriter -> std.io.Writer * std.fmt.format -> std.fmt.deprecatedFormat * std.fmt.fmtSliceEscapeLower -> std.ascii.hexEscape * std.fmt.fmtSliceEscapeUpper -> std.ascii.hexEscape * std.fmt.fmtSliceHexLower -> {x} * std.fmt.fmtSliceHexUpper -> {X} * std.fmt.fmtIntSizeDec -> {B} * std.fmt.fmtIntSizeBin -> {Bi} * std.fmt.fmtDuration -> {D} * std.fmt.fmtDurationSigned -> {D} * {} -> {f} when there is a format method * format method signature - anytype -> *std.io.Writer - inferred error set -> error{WriteFailed} - options -> (deleted) * std.fmt.Formatted - now takes context type explicitly - no fmt string
2025-07-07std.io: move getStdIn, getStdOut, getStdErr functions to fs.FileAndrew Kelley
preparing to rearrange std.io namespace into an interface how to upgrade: std.io.getStdIn() -> std.fs.File.stdin() std.io.getStdOut() -> std.fs.File.stdout() std.io.getStdErr() -> std.fs.File.stderr()
2025-06-19Build: add install commands to `--verbose` outputJacob Young
2025-06-19Build: change how the target is printed in step namesJacob Young
e.g. `x86_64-windows.win10...win11_dt-gnu` -> `x86_64-windows-gnu` When the OS version is the default this is redundant with checking the default in the standard library.
2025-05-25compiler: introduce incremental debug servermlugg
In a compiler built with debug extensions, pass `--debug-incremental` to spawn the "incremental debug server". This is a TCP server exposing a REPL which allows querying a bunch of compiler state, some of which is stored only when that flag is passed. Eventually, this will probably move into `std.zig.Server`/`std.zig.Client`, but this is easier to work with right now. The easiest way to interact with the server is `telnet`.
2025-05-22std.Build: resolved generated paths are cwd-relativemlugg
The doc comment here agreed with the implementation, but not with *any* `Step` which populates a `GeneratedFile`, where they are treated as cwd-relative. This is the obvious correct choice, because these paths usually come from joining onto a cache root, and those are cwd-relative if not absolute. This was a pre-existing bug, but #23836 caused it to trigger more often, because the compiler now commonly passes the local cache directory to the build runner process as a relative path where it was previously an absolute path. Resolves: #23954
2025-05-06std.Build: Rename --glibc-runtimes to --libc-runtimes and enable it for musl.Alex Rønne Petersen
2025-04-22compiler: allow emitting tests to an object filemlugg
This is fairly straightforward; the actual compiler changes are limited to the CLI, since `Compilation` already supports this combination. A new `std.Build` API is introduced to allow representing this. By passing the `emit_object` option to `std.Build.addTest`, you get a `Step.Compile` which emits an object file; you can then use that as you would any other object, such as either installing it for external use, or linking it into another step. A standalone test is added to cover the build system API. It builds a test into an object, and links it into a final executable, which it then runs. Using this build system mechanism prevents the build system from noticing that you're running a `zig test`, so the build runner and test runner do not communicate over stdio. However, that's okay, because the real-world use cases for this feature don't want to do that anyway! Resolves: #23374
2025-03-07std.Build: add build-id optionJan200101
2025-02-28Revert "Merge pull request #22898 from kristoff-it/deprecated-proposal"Andrew Kelley
This reverts commit dea72d15da4fba909dc3ccb2e9dc5286372ac023, reversing changes made to ab381933c87bcc744058d25a876cfdc0d23fc674. The changeset does not work as advertised and does not have sufficient test coverage. Reopens #22822
2025-02-26don't inherit allowed deprecation from parent modulesAndrew Kelley
Inheriting allow-deprecation from parent modules doesn't make too much sense, so instead make them default to disallow unless otherwise specified. This allows build system to avoid redundant `-fno-allow-deprecated` args. This makes the generated CLIs smaller, and makes zig1.wasm update not needed. Also represented `is_root` differently (moved to field of graph).
2025-02-26`@deprecated`: remove per-module flag in BuildLoris Cro
This implementation looks at the builder of each module in the build graph instead of storing a boolean for each module.
2025-02-26`@deprecated`: add build system supportLoris Cro
2025-01-26std.Build: add more explicit error sets to some functionsEric Joldasov
Signed-off-by: Eric Joldasov <bratishkaerik@landless-city.net>
2025-01-25std.Build: Make ofmt part of standardTargetOptions().Alex Rønne Petersen
2025-01-22std.Build: add `addLibrary` function (#22554)BratishkaErik
Acts as a replacement for `addSharedLibrary` and `addStaticLibrary`, but linking mode can be changed more easily in build.zig, for example: In library: ```zig const linkage = b.option(std.builtin.LinkMode, "linkage", "Link mode for a foo_bar library") orelse .static; // or other default const lib = b.addLibrary(.{ .linkage = linkage, .name = "foo_bar", .root_module = mod, }); ``` In consumer: ```zig const dep_foo_bar = b.dependency("foo_bar", .{ .target = target, .optimize = optimize, .linkage = .static // or dynamic }); mod.linkLibrary(dep_foor_bar.artifact("foo_bar")); ``` It also matches nicely with `linkLibrary` name. Signed-off-by: Eric Joldasov <bratishkaerik@landless-city.net>
2025-01-20std.Build: extend `test_runner` option to specify whether runner uses ↵mlugg
`std.zig.Server` The previous logic here was trying to assume that custom test runners never used `std.zig.Server` to communicate with the build runner; however, it was flawed, because modifying the `test_runner` field on `Step.Compile` would not update this flag. That might have been intentional (allowing a way for the user to specify a custom test runner which *does* use the compiler server protocol), but if so, it was a flawed API, since it was too easy to update one field without updating the other. Instead, bundle these two pieces of state into a new type `std.Build.Step.Compile.TestRunner`. When passing a custom test runner, you are now *provided* to specify whether it is a "simple" runner, or whether it uses the compiler server protocol. This is a breaking change, but is unlikely to affect many people, since custom test runners are seldom used in the wild.
2024-12-18std.Build: add API to create Compile steps from existing modulemlugg
This commit amends `std.Build.ExecutableOptions` etc to have a new field, `root_module`, which allows artifacts to be created whose root module is an existing `*Module` rather than a freshly constructed one. This API can be far more versatile, allowing construction of complex module graphs before creating any compile steps, and therefore also allowing easy reuse of modules. The fields which correspond to module options, such as `root_source_file`, are all considered deprecated. They may not be populated at the same time as the `root_module` field. In the next release cycle, these deprecated fields will be removed, and the `root_module` field made non-optional.
2024-12-18std.Build.Step.Compile.Options: change `root_module` field type to `*Module`mlugg
2024-12-18std.Build: remove deprecated APIsEric Joldasov
These APIs were all deprecated prior to the release of 0.13.0, so can be safety removed in the current release cycle. `std.Build`: * `host` -> `graph.host` `std.Build.Step.Compile`: * `setLinkerScriptPath` -> `setLinkerScript` * `defineCMacro` -> `root_module.addCMacro` * `linkFrameworkNeeded`-> `root_module.linkFramework` * `linkFrameworkWeak`-> `root_module.linkFramework` `std.Build.Step.ObjCopy`: * `getOutputSource` -> `getOutput` `std.Build.Step.Options`: * `addOptionArtifact` -> `addOptionPath` * `getSource` -> `getOutput` `std.Build.Step.Run`: * `extra_file_dependencies` -> `addFileInput` * `addDirectorySourceArg` -> `addDirectoryArg` * `addPrefixedDirectorySourceArg` -> `addPrefixedDirectoryArg`
2024-12-11compiler: Improve the handling of unwind table levels.Alex Rønne Petersen
The goal here is to support both levels of unwind tables (sync and async) in zig cc and zig build. Previously, the LLVM backend always used async tables while zig cc was partially influenced by whatever was Clang's default.
2024-10-23introduce a CLI flag to enable .so scripts; default offAndrew Kelley
The compiler defaults this value to off so that users whose system shared libraries are all ELF files don't have to pay the cost of checking every file to find out if it is a text file instead. When a GNU ld script is encountered, the error message instructs users about the CLI flag that will immediately solve their problem.
2024-10-06Build: Add `option(LazyPath, ...)` supportInKryption
Also adds support for `[]const LazyPath` in a similar vein, and refactors a few other bits of code.
2024-09-27build: make dependency cache hash map unmanagedJonathan Marler
Allows Build.Graph to initialize dependency_cache with a default value.
2024-09-27build: move dependency cache into GraphJonathan Marler
The dependency cache is shared amongst all Build objects. This is currently done by allocating a single instance and storing a reference to it in each Build object. However, the Graph object already exists to host shared state so by moving it there we reuse the same pattern for shared state and avoid an extra object on the heap.
2024-09-15std.Build: allow packages to expose arbitrary LazyPaths by namemlugg
2024-09-12Replace deprecated default initializations with decl literalsLinus Groh
2024-08-28std: update `std.builtin.Type` fields to follow naming conventionsmlugg
The compiler actually doesn't need any functional changes for this: Sema does reification based on the tag indices of `std.builtin.Type` already! So, no zig1.wasm update is necessary. This change is necessary to disallow name clashes between fields and decls on a type, which is a prerequisite of #9938.
2024-08-23fix merge conflict from previous commitAndrew Kelley
2024-08-23std.Build: call `handleVerbose2` in `runAllowFail`Eric Joldasov
Ensures that all runned command are visible when using `--verbose` flag, for example `pkg-config` from Step.Compile or `git describe` from build.zig. Signed-off-by: Eric Joldasov <bratishkaerik@landless-city.net>
2024-08-19fix various issues related to Path handling in the compiler and stdRobin Voetter
A compilation build step for which the binary is not required could not be compiled previously. There were 2 issues that caused this: - The compiler communicated only the results of the emitted binary and did not properly communicate the result if the binary was not emitted. This is fixed by communicating the final hash of the artifact path (the hash of the corresponding /o/<hash> directory) and communicating this instead of the entire path. This changes the zig build --listen protocol to communicate hashes instead of paths, and emit_bin_path is accordingly renamed to emit_digest. - There was an error related to the default llvm object path when CacheUse.Whole was selected. I'm not really sure why this didn't manifest when the binary is also emitted. This was fixed by improving the path handling related to flush() and emitLlvmObject(). In general, this commit also improves some of the path handling throughout the compiler and standard library.
2024-08-07introduce a web interface for fuzzingAndrew Kelley
* new .zig-cache subdirectory: 'v' - stores coverage information with filename of hash of PCs that want coverage. This hash is a hex encoding of the 64-bit coverage ID. * build runner * fixed bug in file system inputs when a compile step has an overridden zig_lib_dir field set. * set some std lib options optimized for the build runner - no side channel mitigations - no Transport Layer Security - no crypto fork safety * add a --port CLI arg for choosing the port the fuzzing web interface listens on. it defaults to choosing a random open port. * introduce a web server, and serve a basic single page application - shares wasm code with autodocs - assets are created live on request, for convenient development experience. main.wasm is properly cached if nothing changes. - sources.tar comes from file system inputs (introduced with the `--watch` feature) * receives coverage ID from test runner and sends it on a thread-safe queue to the WebServer. * test runner - takes a zig cache directory argument now, for where to put coverage information. - sends coverage ID to parent process * fuzzer - puts its logs (in debug mode) in .zig-cache/tmp/libfuzzer.log - computes coverage_id and makes it available with `fuzzer_coverage_id` exported function. - the memory-mapped coverage file is now namespaced by the coverage id in hex encoding, in `.zig-cache/v` * tokenizer - add a fuzz test to check that several properties are upheld