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2025-07-07update standalone and incremental tests to new APIAndrew Kelley
2025-07-07std.io.Writer.printValue: rework logicAndrew Kelley
Alignment and fill options only apply to numbers. Rework the implementation to mainly branch on the format string rather than the type information. This is more straightforward to maintain and more straightforward for comptime evaluation. Enums support being printed as decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary. `formatInteger` is another possible format method that is unconditionally called when the value type is struct and one of the integer-printing format specifiers are used.
2025-07-07std.fmt.format: use {t} for tag name rather than {s}Andrew Kelley
prevents footgun when formatted type changes from string to enum
2025-07-07compiler: update a bunch of format stringsAndrew Kelley
2025-07-07update compiler source to new APIsAndrew 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()
2025-07-07zig fmtAndrew Kelley
2025-07-07llvm: Use emulated TLS when appropriate for the targetAlex Rønne Petersen
Closes #24236.
2025-07-06wasi: Build emulated libraries into libc.aAlex Rønne Petersen
This matches what we do for small helper libraries like this in MinGW-w64. It simplifies the compiler a bit, and also means the build system doesn't have to treat these library names specially. Closes #24325.
2025-07-06Sema: Stop adding Windows implib link inputs for `extern "..."` syntax.Alex Rønne Petersen
Closes #23971.
2025-06-19Target: pass and use locals by pointer instead of by valueJacob Young
This struct is larger than 256 bytes and code that copies it consistently shows up in profiles of the compiler.
2025-06-13zig init: simplify templating logic (#24170)Loris Cro
and also rename `advancedPrint` to `bufferedPrint` in the zig init templates These are left overs from my previous changes to zig init. The new templating system removes LITNAME because the new restrictions on package names make it redundant with NAME, and the use of underscores for marking templated identifiers lets us template variable names while still keeping zig fmt happy.
2025-06-12cli: correctly error for missing output directoriesmlugg
2025-06-12compiler: rework emit paths and cache modesmlugg
Previously, various doc comments heavily disagreed with the implementation on both what lives where on the filesystem at what time, and how that was represented in code. Notably, the combination of emit paths outside the cache and `disable_lld_caching` created a kind of ad-hoc "cache disable" mechanism -- which didn't actually *work* very well, 'most everything still ended up in this cache. There was also a long-standing issue where building using the LLVM backend would put a random object file in your cwd. This commit reworks how emit paths are specified in `Compilation.CreateOptions`, how they are represented internally, and how the cache usage is specified. There are now 3 options for `Compilation.CacheMode`: * `.none`: do not use the cache. The paths we have to emit to are relative to the compiler cwd (they're either user-specified, or defaults inferred from the root name). If we create any temporary files (e.g. the ZCU object when using the LLVM backend) they are emitted to a directory in `local_cache/tmp/`, which is deleted once the update finishes. * `.whole`: cache the compilation based on all inputs, including file contents. All emit paths are computed by the compiler (and will be stored as relative to the local cache directory); it is a CLI error to specify an explicit emit path. Artifacts (including temporary files) are written to a directory under `local_cache/tmp/`, which is later renamed to an appropriate `local_cache/o/`. The caller (who is using `--listen`; e.g. the build system) learns the name of this directory, and can get the artifacts from it. * `.incremental`: similar to `.whole`, but Zig source file contents, and anything else which incremental compilation can handle changes for, is not included in the cache manifest. We don't need to do the dance where the output directory is initially in `tmp/`, because our digest is computed entirely from CLI inputs. To be clear, the difference between `CacheMode.whole` and `CacheMode.incremental` is unchanged. `CacheMode.none` is new (previously it was sort of poorly imitated with `CacheMode.whole`). The defined behavior for temporary/intermediate files is new. `.none` is used for direct CLI invocations like `zig build-exe foo.zig`. The other cache modes are reserved for `--listen`, and the cache mode in use is currently just based on the presence of the `-fincremental` flag. There are two cases in which `CacheMode.whole` is used despite there being no `--listen` flag: `zig test` and `zig run`. Unless an explicit `-femit-bin=xxx` argument is passed on the CLI, these subcommands will use `CacheMode.whole`, so that they can put the output somewhere without polluting the cwd (plus, caching is potentially more useful for direct usage of these subcommands). Users of `--listen` (such as the build system) can now use `std.zig.EmitArtifact.cacheName` to find out what an output will be named. This avoids having to synchronize logic between the compiler and all users of `--listen`.
2025-06-12link: divorce LLD from the self-hosted linkersmlugg
Similar to the previous commit, this commit untangles LLD integration from the self-hosted linkers. Despite the big network of functions which were involved, it turns out what was going on here is quite simple. The LLD linking logic is actually very self-contained; it requires a few flags from the `link.File.OpenOptions`, but that's really about it. We don't need any of the mutable state on `Elf`/`Coff`/`Wasm`, for instance. There was some legacy code trying to handle support for using self-hosted codegen with LLD, but that's not a supported use case, so I've just stripped it out. For now, I've just pasted the logic for linking the 3 targets we currently support using LLD for into this new linker implementation, `link.Lld`; however, it's almost certainly possible to combine some of the logic and simplify this file a bit. But to be honest, it's not actually that bad right now. This commit ends up eliminating the distinction between `flush` and `flushZcu` (formerly `flushModule`) in linkers, where the latter previously meant something along the lines of "flush, but if you're going to be linking with LLD, just flush the ZCU object file, don't actually link"?. The distinction here doesn't seem like it was properly defined, and most linkers seem to treat them as essentially identical anyway. Regardless, all calls to `flushZcu` are gone now, so it's deleted -- one `flush` to rule them all! The end result of this commit and the preceding one is that LLVM and LLD fit into the pipeline much more sanely: * If we're using LLVM for the ZCU, that state is on `zcu.llvm_object` * If we're using LLD to link, then the `link.File` is a `link.Lld` * Calls to "ZCU link functions" (e.g. `updateNav`) lower to calls to the LLVM object if it's available, or otherwise to the `link.File` if it's available (neither is available under `-fno-emit-bin`) * After everything is done, linking is finalized by calling `flush` on the `link.File`; for `link.Lld` this invokes LLD, for other linkers it flushes self-hosted linker state There's one messy thing remaining, and that's how self-hosted function codegen in a ZCU works; right now, we process AIR with a call sequence something like this: * `link.doTask` * `Zcu.PerThread.linkerUpdateFunc` * `link.File.updateFunc` * `link.Elf.updateFunc` * `link.Elf.ZigObject.updateFunc` * `codegen.generateFunction` * `arch.x86_64.CodeGen.generate` So, we start in the linker, take a scenic detour through `Zcu`, go back to the linker, into its implementation, and then... right back out, into code which is generic over the linker implementation, and then dispatch on the *backend* instead! Of course, within `arch.x86_64.CodeGen`, there are some more places which switch on the `link` implementation being used. This is all pretty silly... so it shall be my next target.
2025-06-06x86_64: fix switch dispatch bugJacob Young
Also closes #23902
2025-06-04compiler: Always dynamically link executables for Fuchsia.Alex Rønne Petersen
Fuchsia only supports PIE executables, specifically ET_DYN. https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/process/program_loading
2025-06-02zig init: appease zig fmt checkLoris Cro
last commit introduced a templated variable name that made zig fmt angry
2025-06-02zig init: add new --strip flag and improve template filesLoris Cro
This commit introduces a new flag to generate a new Zig project using `zig init` without comments for users who are already familiar with the Zig build system. Additionally, the generated files are now different. Previously we would generate a set of files that defined a static library and an executable, which real-life experience has shown to cause confusion to newcomers. The new template generates one Zig module and one executable both in order to accommodate the two most common use cases, but also to suggest that a library could use a CLI tool (e.g. a parser library could use a CLI tool that provides syntax checking) and vice-versa a CLI tool might want to expose its core functionality as a Zig module. All references to C interoperability are removed from the template under the assumption that if you're tall enough to do C interop, you're also tall enough to find your way around the build system. Experienced users will still be able to use the current template and adapt it with minimal changes in order to perform more advanced operations. As an example, one only needs to change `b.addExecutable` to `b.addLibrary` to switch from generating an executable to a dynamic (or static) 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`.
2025-05-21link.Elf: Don't require linking libc for dynamic linker path to take effect.Alex Rønne Petersen
Closes #23813.
2025-05-18compiler: refactor `Zcu.File` and path representationmlugg
This commit makes some big changes to how we track state for Zig source files. In particular, it changes: * How `File` tracks its path on-disk * How AstGen discovers files * How file-level errors are tracked * How `builtin.zig` files and modules are created The original motivation here was to address incremental compilation bugs with the handling of files, such as #22696. To fix this, a few changes are necessary. Just like declarations may become unreferenced on an incremental update, meaning we suppress analysis errors associated with them, it is also possible for all imports of a file to be removed on an incremental update, in which case file-level errors for that file should be suppressed. As such, after AstGen, the compiler must traverse files (starting from analysis roots) and discover the set of "live files" for this update. Additionally, the compiler's previous handling of retryable file errors was not very good; the source location the error was reported as was based only on the first discovered import of that file. This source location also disappeared on future incremental updates. So, as a part of the file traversal above, we also need to figure out the source locations of imports which errors should be reported against. Another observation I made is that the "file exists in multiple modules" error was not implemented in a particularly good way (I get to say that because I wrote it!). It was subject to races, where the order in which different imports of a file were discovered affects both how errors are printed, and which module the file is arbitrarily assigned, with the latter in turn affecting which other files are considered for import. The thing I realised here is that while the AstGen worker pool is running, we cannot know for sure which module(s) a file is in; we could always discover an import later which changes the answer. So, here's how the AstGen workers have changed. We initially ensure that `zcu.import_table` contains the root files for all modules in this Zcu, even if we don't know any imports for them yet. Then, the AstGen workers do not need to be aware of modules. Instead, they simply ignore module imports, and only spin off more workers when they see a by-path import. During AstGen, we can't use module-root-relative paths, since we don't know which modules files are in; but we don't want to unnecessarily use absolute files either, because those are non-portable and can make `error.NameTooLong` more likely. As such, I have introduced a new abstraction, `Compilation.Path`. This type is a way of representing a filesystem path which has a *canonical form*. The path is represented relative to one of a few special directories: the lib directory, the global cache directory, or the local cache directory. As a fallback, we use absolute (or cwd-relative on WASI) paths. This is kind of similar to `std.Build.Cache.Path` with a pre-defined list of possible `std.Build.Cache.Directory`, but has stricter canonicalization rules based on path resolution to make sure deduplicating files works properly. A `Compilation.Path` can be trivially converted to a `std.Build.Cache.Path` from a `Compilation`, but is smaller, has a canonical form, and has a digest which will be consistent across different compiler processes with the same lib and cache directories (important when we serialize incremental compilation state in the future). `Zcu.File` and `Zcu.EmbedFile` both contain a `Compilation.Path`, which is used to access the file on-disk; module-relative sub paths are used quite rarely (`EmbedFile` doesn't even have one now for simplicity). After the AstGen workers all complete, we know that any file which might be imported is definitely in `import_table` and up-to-date. So, we perform a single-threaded graph traversal; similar to what `resolveReferences` plays for `AnalUnit`s, but for files instead. We figure out which files are alive, and which module each file is in. If a file turns out to be in multiple modules, we set a field on `Zcu` to indicate this error. If a file is in a different module to a prior update, we set a flag instructing `updateZirRefs` to invalidate all dependencies on the file. This traversal also discovers "import errors"; these are errors associated with a specific `@import`. With Zig's current design, there is only one possible error here: "import outside of module root". This must be identified during this traversal instead of during AstGen, because it depends on which module the file is in. I tried also representing "module not found" errors in this same way, but it turns out to be much more useful to report those in Sema, because of use cases like optional dependencies where a module import is behind a comptime-known build option. For simplicity, `failed_files` now just maps to `?[]u8`, since the source location is always the whole file. In fact, this allows removing `LazySrcLoc.Offset.entire_file` completely, slightly simplifying some error reporting logic. File-level errors are now directly built in the `std.zig.ErrorBundle.Wip`. If the payload is not `null`, it is the message for a retryable error (i.e. an error loading the source file), and will be reported with a "file imported here" note pointing to the import site discovered during the single-threaded file traversal. The last piece of fallout here is how `Builtin` works. Rather than constructing "builtin" modules when creating `Package.Module`s, they are now constructed on-the-fly by `Zcu`. The map `Zcu.builtin_modules` maps from digests to `*Package.Module`s. These digests are abstract hashes of the `Builtin` value; i.e. all of the options which are placed into "builtin.zig". During the file traversal, we populate `builtin_modules` as needed, so that when we see this imports in Sema, we just grab the relevant entry from this map. This eliminates a bunch of awkward state tracking during construction of the module graph. It's also now clearer exactly what options the builtin module has, since previously it inherited some options arbitrarily from the first-created module with that "builtin" module! The user-visible effects of this commit are: * retryable file errors are now consistently reported against the whole file, with a note pointing to a live import of that file * some theoretical bugs where imports are wrongly considered distinct (when the import path moves out of the cwd and then back in) are fixed * some consistency issues with how file-level errors are reported are fixed; these errors will now always be printed in the same order regardless of how the AstGen pass assigns file indices * incremental updates do not print retryable file errors differently between updates or depending on file structure/contents * incremental updates support files changing modules * incremental updates support files becoming unreferenced Resolves: #22696
2025-05-12main: List -f(no-)builtin as per-module options.Alex Rønne Petersen
Contributes to #23424.
2025-05-10compiler: Move vendored library support to `libs` subdirectory.Alex Rønne Petersen
2025-05-04fix system library lookup when cross-compiling to windows-msvcXavier Bouchoux
2025-05-03compiler: Link libunwind when linking glibc statically.Alex Rønne Petersen
glibc's libc.a depends on the functions provided by libunwind.
2025-04-27compiler: Error if the user targets arc with -femit-bin.Alex Rønne Petersen
LLVM can only produce assembly files for this target currently.
2025-04-26compiler: Allow configuring UBSan mode at the module level.Alex Rønne Petersen
* Accept -fsanitize-c=trap|full in addition to the existing form. * Accept -f(no-)sanitize-trap=undefined in zig cc. * Change type of std.Build.Module.sanitize_c to std.zig.SanitizeC. * Add some missing Compilation.Config fields to the cache. Closes #23216.
2025-04-26Merge pull request #23572 from alexrp/zig-cc-static-dynamicAlex 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
2025-04-21revive nvptx linkageAli Cheraghi
2025-04-14zig cc: Respect Clang's -static and -dynamic flags.Alex Rønne Petersen
Before: ❯ zig cc main.c -target x86_64-linux-musl && musl-ldd ./a.out musl-ldd: ./a.out: Not a valid dynamic program ❯ zig cc main.c -target x86_64-linux-musl -static && musl-ldd ./a.out musl-ldd: ./a.out: Not a valid dynamic program ❯ zig cc main.c -target x86_64-linux-musl -dynamic && musl-ldd ./a.out musl-ldd: ./a.out: Not a valid dynamic program After: ❯ zig cc main.c -target x86_64-linux-musl && musl-ldd ./a.out musl-ldd: ./a.out: Not a valid dynamic program ❯ zig cc main.c -target x86_64-linux-musl -static && musl-ldd ./a.out musl-ldd: ./a.out: Not a valid dynamic program ❯ zig cc main.c -target x86_64-linux-musl -dynamic && musl-ldd ./a.out /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1 (0x72c10019e000) libc.so => /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1 (0x72c10019e000) Closes #11909.
2025-04-14compiler: MinGW-w64 import libs should not count towards any_dyn_libs.Alex Rønne Petersen
They are, themselves, static libraries even if the resulting artifact strictly speaking requires dynamic linking to the corresponding system DLLs to run. Note, though, that there's no libc-provided dynamic linker on Windows like on POSIX, so this isn't particularly problematic. This matches x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc behavior.
2025-04-13std: eradicate u29 and embrace std.mem.AlignmentAndrew Kelley
2025-04-11Merge pull request #22516 from Jan200101/PR/build_id_optionAndrew Kelley
std.Build: add build-id option
2025-04-05std.Build: update build-id flag descriptionJan200101
it now denotes: - all supported styles - what a given style outputs - what formats a given style supports
2025-04-04compiler: Recognize -fno-sanitize=<...> in addition to -fsanitize=<...>.Alex Rønne Petersen
2025-03-27std.Build: implement addEmbedPath for adding C #embed search directoriesGalaxyShard
2025-03-26zig build: allow to choose "lazy mode" for fetching processEric Joldasov
`--fetch` flag now has additional optional parameter, which specifies how lazy dependencies should be fetched: * `needed` — lazy dependencies are fetched only if they are required for current build configuration to work. Default and works same as old `--fetch` flag. * `all` — lazy dependencies are always fetched. If `--system` flag is used after that, it's guaranteed that **any** build configuration will not require additional download of dependencies during build. Helpful for distro packagers and CI systems: https://www.github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/14597#issuecomment-1426827495 If none is passed, behaviour is same as if `needed` was passed. Signed-off-by: Eric Joldasov <bratishkaerik@landless-city.net>
2025-03-19compiler: Support more GCC code models and fix the mapping to LLVM code models.Alex Rønne Petersen
Closes #22517.
2025-03-12Merge pull request #22397 from Techatrix/type-safe-astMatthew Lugg
improve type safety of std.zig.Ast
2025-03-07x86_64: rewrite aggregate initJacob Young
2025-03-07std.zig.Ast: improve type safetyTechatrix
This commits adds the following distinct integer types to std.zig.Ast: - OptionalTokenIndex - TokenOffset - OptionalTokenOffset - Node.OptionalIndex - Node.Offset - Node.OptionalOffset The `Node.Index` type has also been converted to a distinct type while `TokenIndex` remains unchanged. `Ast.Node.Data` has also been changed to a (untagged) union to provide safety checks.
2025-03-07add a reference to #21690Techatrix
2025-03-04init: Substitute invalid package names with `foo`Carl Åstholm
Closes #23066
2025-03-02compiler: default to `.whole` cache mode for self-hosted backendsmlugg
This is a better default cache mode until incremental compilation is enabled by default.
2025-02-26rename "nonce" to "fingerprint"Andrew Kelley
2025-02-26zig init: adjust template lang to allow zig fmt passthroughAndrew Kelley
2025-02-26switch from "id" to "nonce"Andrew Kelley
mainly this addresses the following use case: 1. Someone creates a template with build.zig.zon, id field included (note that zig init does not create this problem since it generates fresh id every time it runs). 2. User A uses the template, changing package name to "example" but not id field. 3. User B uses the same template, changing package name also to "example", also not changing the id field. Here, both packages have unintentional conflicting logical ids. By making the field a combination of name checksum + random id, this accident is avoided. "nonce" is an OK name for this. Also relaxes errors on remote packages when using `zig fetch`.