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2025-10-03Support generating import libraries from mingw .def files without LLVMRyan Liptak
For the supported COFF machine types of X64 (x86_64), I386 (x86), ARMNT (thumb), and ARM64 (aarch64), this new Zig implementation results in byte-for-byte identical .lib files when compared to the previous LLVM-backed implementation.
2025-08-30compiler: respond to API changes in LLVM 21Alex Rønne Petersen
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.
2025-07-07llvm: Use emulated TLS when appropriate for the targetAlex Rønne Petersen
Closes #24236.
2025-07-01llvm: Disable the machine outliner pass on RISC-VAlex Rønne Petersen
2025-06-11zig_llvm: Strip @<n> suffix from .def symbols on all targets.Alex Rønne Petersen
We have to do this because upstream MinGW-w64 now has symbols in lib-common/ which are unconditionally decorated with @<n>.
2025-04-04compiler: Updates for LLVM/Clang 20 API changes.Alex Rønne Petersen
2025-02-11ZigLLVMTargetMachineEmitToFile: schedule sancov pass depending on modeAndrew Kelley
In debug mode, schedule it early. In release modes, schedule it late.
2024-10-31zig_llvm: Reduce our exposure to LLVM API breakage.Alex Rønne Petersen
LLVM recently introduced new Triple::ArchType members in 19.1.3 which broke our static assertions in zig_llvm.cpp. When implementing a fix for that, I realized that we don't even need a lot of the stuff we have in zig_llvm.(cpp,h) anymore. This commit trims the interface down considerably.
2024-09-19zig_llvm: Update to LLVM 19.Alex Rønne Petersen
2024-09-01LLVM: Remove cpp bindings for setPICLevel, setPIELevel and setCodeModelantlilja
2024-08-30fix invisible merge conflictAndrew Kelley
2024-08-30Merge pull request #21224 from alexrp/mips-gnu-fixesAndrew Kelley
Fix MIPS PIC level and work around an LLVM bug for `mips(el)-linux-gnueabi(hf)`
2024-08-30llvm: Pass EmitOptions to libzigcpp by pointer.Alex Rønne Petersen
Passing it by value means that bringup on new architectures is harder for no real benefit. Passing it by pointer allows to get the compiler running without needing to figure out the C calling convention details first. This manifested in practice on LoongArch, for example.
2024-08-28llvm: Disable FastISel on MIPS as a workaround for #21215.Alex Rønne Petersen
Until llvm/llvm-project#106231 trickles down.
2024-08-28llvm: Set PIC level 1 for MIPS.Alex Rønne Petersen
For hysterical raisins, MIPS always uses 1, regardless of `-fpic` vs `-fPIC`.
2024-08-13ZigLLVMTargetMachineEmitToFile: put sanitizers in ↵Andrew Kelley
registerOptimizerLastEPCallback matching the default of clang's behavior. I originally put them in registerOptimizerEarlyEPCallback because I thought clang was doing that, but I see now it is behind the flag `--sanitizer-early-opt-ep` which is disabled by default.
2024-07-24llvm: force `TargetOptions.UseInitArray` to `true`Jacob Young
The `TargetOptions` default constructor initializes all `bool`s to `false`, yet clang defaults to setting this option to `true`. Since recent glibc versions on linux do not appear to support this being set to `false`, just changing the default for now unless a use case for making it configurable is found.
2024-07-23LLVM: more fine-grained sancov emit optionsAndrew Kelley
Exposes sanitizer coverage flags to the target machine emit function. Makes it easier to change sancov options without rebuilding the C++ files. This also enables PCTable = true for sancov which is needed by AFL, and adds the corresponding Clang flag.
2024-07-22ZigLLVMTargetMachineEmitToFile: make sancov enable the optionsAndrew Kelley
2024-07-22initial support for integrated fuzzingAndrew Kelley
* Add the `-ffuzz` and `-fno-fuzz` CLI arguments. * Detect fuzz testing flags from zig cc. * Set the correct clang flags when fuzz testing is requested. It can be combined with TSAN and UBSAN. * Compilation: build fuzzer library when needed which is currently an empty zig file. * Add optforfuzzing to every function in the llvm backend for modules that have requested fuzzing. * In ZigLLVMTargetMachineEmitToFile, add the optimization passes for sanitizer coverage. * std.mem.eql uses a naive implementation optimized for fuzzing when builtin.fuzz is true. Tracked by #20702
2024-05-08update for LLVM 18 new target dataAndrew Kelley
New OSs: * XROS * Serenity * Vulkan Removed OSs: * Ananas * CloudABI * Minix * Contiki New CPUs: * spirv The removed stuff is removed from LLVM but not Zig.
2024-03-03Add comment explaining LLVM bug and linking tracking issueantlilja
2024-03-02LLVM: Add enableBrokenDebugInfoCheck and getBrokenDebugInfoantlilja
These functions allows the caller to find out wether the context encounters broken debug info or not.
2024-02-21LLVM: Remove unused from llvm/bindings.zig and zig_llvm.h/.cppantlilja
2023-10-04comp: add support for -fdata-sectionsJakub Konka
2023-09-19update for LLVM 17 new target dataAndrew Kelley
New OSs: * UEFI * LiteOS New ABI: * OpenHOS Also update the LLD driver API wrappers.
2023-08-08llvm: force strip without libllvm to avoid unimplemented behaviorJacob Young
Also fix deinit bugs.
2023-08-08llvm: finish converting globalsJacob Young
2023-08-08llvm: finish converting instructionsJacob Young
2023-08-08llvm: finish converting intrinsicsJacob Young
2023-08-08llvm: convert vector reduction intrinsicsJacob Young
Scratch that thing I said about one pass. :)
2023-08-08llvm: finish converting attributes to use Builder and the C LLVM APIJacob Young
2023-08-08llvm: convert intrinsics to using `Builder`Jacob Young
2023-08-06Implement bitop intrinsics in new LLVM IR builderantlilja
* llvm.bitreverse * llvm.bswap * llvm.ctpop * llvm.ctlz * llvm.cttz
2023-08-06Implement fp intrinsics in new LLVM IR builderantlilja
Intrinsics implemented * llvm.ceil * llvm.cos * llvm.exp * llvm.exp2 * llvm.fabs * llvm.floor * llvm.log * llvm.log10 * llvm.log2 * llvm.round * llvm.sin * llvm.trunc * llvm.fma
2023-07-23llvm: convert attributes and non-intrinsic callsJacob Young
2023-07-19llvm: convert most instructionsJacob Young
2023-06-23llvm: fixup elem_count argument of ZigLLVMCreateDebugArrayType to be i64kcbanner
The signature is `getOrCreateSubrange(int64_t Lo, int64_t Count)`, so this updates the bindings to match. This fixes a crash in `lowerDebugTypeImpl` when analyzing slices that have a length of 2^32 or larger (up to `2^64 >> 3`, which still crashes, because above that the array size in bits overflows u64).
2023-04-20Expose an option for producing 64-bit DWARF formatDavid Gonzalez Martin
This commit enables producing 64-bit DWARF format for Zig executables that are produced through the LLVM backend. This is achieved by exposing both command-line flags and CompileStep flags. The production of the 64-bit format only affects binaries that use the DWARF format and it is disabled on MacOS due to it being problematic. This commit, despite generating the interface for the Zig user to be able to tell the compile which format is wanted, is just implemented for the LLVM backend, so clang and the self-hosted backends will need this to be implemented in a future commit. This is an effort to work around #7962, since the emission of the 64-bit format automatically produces 64-bit relocations. Further investigation will be needed to make DWARF 32-bit format to emit bigger relocations when needed and not make the linker angry.
2023-04-20llvm: emit metadata for exported global variables (#15349)Tw
* llvm: emit metadata for global variable One use case is to genearte BTF information from global variable's metadata. Signed-off-by: Tw <weii.tan>
2023-04-05Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into llvm16Andrew Kelley
2023-03-30llvm: fix crashes when loading a struct fieldJacob Young
The result of buildStructGEP is not always a GEP (sorry), so we can't use getGEPResultElementType on it. Closes #14641
2023-01-25update zig_llvm.cpp and zig_llvm.h to LLVM 16Andrew Kelley
2023-01-03add -fopt-bisect-limitGuillaume Wenzek
2022-11-20llvm: add attributes to the arguments of function pointer callsVeikka Tuominen
Closes #13605
2022-11-16llvm: implement arbitrary precision debug enumeratorsVeikka Tuominen
Closes #645
2022-10-12stage2: improve addrspace handlingRobin Voetter
This commit changes the way Zig is intended to deal with variable declaration for exotic targets. Where previously the idea was to enfore local/global variables to be placed into their respective address spaces, depending on the target, this is now fixed to the generic address space. To facilitate this for targets where local variables _must_ be generated into a specific address space (ex. amdgcn where locals must be generated into the private address space), the variable allocations (alloca) are generated into the right address space and then addrspace-casted back to the generic address space. While this could be less efficient in theory, LLVM will hopefull deal with figuring out the actual correct address space for a pointer for us. HIP seems to do the same thing in this regard. Global variables are handled in a similar way.
2022-08-01LLVM backends: work around poorly designed C APIAndrew Kelley
As part of the Opaque Pointers upgrade documentation, LLVM says that the function LLVMGetGEPSourceElementType() can be used to obtain element type information in lieu of LLVMGetElementType(), however, this function actually returns the struct type, not the field type. The GEP instruction does store the information we need, however, this is not exposed in the C API. It seems like they accidentally exposed the wrong field, because one would never need the struct type since one must already pass it directly to the GEP instruction, so one will always have it handy, whereas one will usually not have the field type handy.
2022-08-01stage1: LLVM lowering to opaque pointers APIAndrew Kelley