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2025-08-26std.Build.Step.TranslateC: forward --cache-dir and --global-cache-dir flagsAdamGoertz
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.
2025-07-11Remove 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.
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.TranslateC: propagate target, optimize, link_libc to added moduleEric Joldasov
Will be needed for the future commit with the new API where artifacts are created from the pre-existing module.
2024-09-25replace TranslateC.addIncludeDir with variants with LazyPath/library namesdave caruso
2024-08-21std.Build.Step.TranslateC: propagate target, optimize, link_libc to created ↵mlugg
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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.
2024-07-14make zig compiler processes live across rebuildsAndrew Kelley
Changes the `make` function signature to take an options struct, which additionally includes `watch: bool`. I intentionally am not exposing this information to configure phase logic. Also adds global zig cache to the compiler cache prefixes. Closes #20600
2024-07-07Step.TranslateC: fix defineCMacroKrzysztof Wolicki
2024-05-27update the codebase for the new std.Progress APIAndrew Kelley
2024-05-05Run: add output directory argumentsJacob Young
This allows running commands that take an output directory argument. The main thing that was needed for this feature was generated file subpaths, to allow access to the files in a generated directory. Additionally, a minor change was required to so that the correct directory is created for output directory args.
2024-05-05Build: cleanupJacob Young
* `doc/langref` formatting * upgrade `.{ .path = "..." }` to `b.path("...")` * avoid using arguments named `self` * make `Build.Step.Id` usage more consistent * add `Build.pathResolve` * use `pathJoin` and `pathResolve` everywhere * make sure `Build.LazyPath.getPath2` returns an absolute path
2024-03-30Update uses of `@fieldParentPtr` to use RLSJacob Young
2024-03-30Update uses of `@fieldParentPtr` to pass a pointer typeJacob Young
2024-03-11std.builtin: make link mode fields lowercaseTristan Ross
2024-02-02std.Build: implement --host-target, --host-cpu, --host-dynamic-linkerAndrew Kelley
This also makes a long-overdue change of extracting common state from Build into a shared Graph object. Getting the semantics right for these flags turned out to be quite tricky. In the end it works like this: * The override only happens when the target is fully native, with no additional query parameters, such as versions or CPU features added. * The override affects the resolved Target but leaves the original Query unmodified. * The "is native?" detection logic operates on the original, unmodified query. This makes it possible to provide invalid host target information, causing confusing errors to occur. Don't do that. There are some minor breaking changes to std.Build API such as the fact that `b.zig_exe` is now moved to `b.graph.zig_exe`, as well as a handful of other similar flags.
2024-01-31std.Build.Step.TranslateC: fix use of outdated Module in createModuleGustavo C. Viegas
2024-01-26align naming and fix module creation from TranslateCTobias Simetsreiter
2024-01-01zig build system: change target, compilation, and module APIsAndrew Kelley
Introduce the concept of "target query" and "resolved target". A target query is what the user specifies, with some things left to default. A resolved target has the default things discovered and populated. In the future, std.zig.CrossTarget will be rename to std.Target.Query. Introduces `std.Build.resolveTargetQuery` to get from one to the other. The concept of `main_mod_path` is gone, no longer supported. You have to put the root source file at the module root now. * remove deprecated API * update build.zig for the breaking API changes in this branch * move std.Build.Step.Compile.BuildId to std.zig.BuildId * add more options to std.Build.ExecutableOptions, std.Build.ObjectOptions, std.Build.SharedLibraryOptions, std.Build.StaticLibraryOptions, and std.Build.TestOptions. * remove `std.Build.constructCMacro`. There is no use for this API. * deprecate `std.Build.Step.Compile.defineCMacro`. Instead, `std.Build.Module.addCMacro` is provided. - remove `std.Build.Step.Compile.defineCMacroRaw`. * deprecate `std.Build.Step.Compile.linkFrameworkNeeded` - use `std.Build.Module.linkFramework` * deprecate `std.Build.Step.Compile.linkFrameworkWeak` - use `std.Build.Module.linkFramework` * move more logic into `std.Build.Module` * allow `target` and `optimize` to be `null` when creating a Module. Along with other fields, those unspecified options will be inherited from parent `Module` when inserted into an import table. * the `target` field of `addExecutable` is now required. pass `b.host` to get the host target.
2023-10-17tests: translate-c and run-translated-c to the test harnessVeikka Tuominen
2023-09-23Allow Step.TranslateC to not link libcGarrett Beck
2023-08-09change uses of std.builtin.Mode to OptimizeMode (#16745)Zachary Raineri
std.builtin.Mode is deprecated.
2023-07-30Build.zig rename orgy (aka: #16353). Renames FileSource to LazyPath and ↵Felix (xq) Queißner
removes functions that take literal paths instead of LazyPath.
2023-07-23test: test for issues starting codegen on many targetsJacob Young
Specifically this is to make sure llvm data layout generation doesn't regress. The no emit bin is to allow testing targets that can't currently be linked. The commented out targets are ones that fail in the linker anyway when no emit bin is passed.
2023-07-11std.Build: Add methods for creating modules from a TranslateC object.Michael Buckley
2023-06-17std: replace builtin.Version with SemanticVersionr00ster91
2023-05-03std.Build: use Step.* instead of *StepVeikka Tuominen
Follow up to 13eb7251d37759bd47403db304c6120c706fe353
2023-05-03build: rename std.Build.*Step to std.Build.Step.*Nicolas Sterchele
Follow-up actions from #14647 Fixes #14947