From 6d88c3e935357e73493a0d10cd85dd2676f6b85b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:27:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add builtin.zig_version_string

sometimes this is more useful than SemanticVersion
---
 src/Compilation.zig | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Compilation.zig b/src/Compilation.zig
index e19dc59445..3a75b44861 100644
--- a/src/Compilation.zig
+++ b/src/Compilation.zig
@@ -5056,7 +5056,8 @@ pub fn generateBuiltinZigSource(comp: *Compilation, allocator: Allocator) Alloca
         \\const std = @import("std");
         \\/// Zig version. When writing code that supports multiple versions of Zig, prefer
         \\/// feature detection (i.e. with `@hasDecl` or `@hasField`) over version checks.
-        \\pub const zig_version = std.SemanticVersion.parse("{s}") catch unreachable;
+        \\pub const zig_version = std.SemanticVersion.parse(zig_version_string) catch unreachable;
+        \\pub const zig_version_string = "{s}";
         \\pub const zig_backend = std.builtin.CompilerBackend.{};
         \\
         \\pub const output_mode = std.builtin.OutputMode.{};