The build runner was previously forcing child processes to have their
stderr colorization match the build runner by setting `CLICOLOR_FORCE`
or `NO_COLOR`. This is a nice idea in some cases---for instance a simple
`Run` step which we just expect to exit with code 0 and whose stderr is
not being programmatically inspected---but is a bad idea in others, for
instance if there is a check on stderr or if stderr is captured, in
which case forcing color on the child could cause checks to fail.
Instead, this commit adds a field to `std.Build.Step.Run` which
specifies a behavior for the build runner to employ in terms of
assigning the `CLICOLOR_FORCE` and `NO_COLOR` environment variables. The
default behavior is to set `CLICOLOR_FORCE` if the build runner's output
is colorized and the step's stderr is not captured, and to set
`NO_COLOR` otherwise. Alternatively, colors can be always enabled,
always disabled, always match the build runner, or the environment
variables can be left untouched so they can be manually controlled
through `env_map`.
Notably, this fixes a failure when running `zig build test-cli` in a
TTY (or with colors explicitly enabled). GitHub CI hadn't caught this
because it does not request color, but Codeberg CI now does, and we were
seeing a failure in the `zig init` test because the actual output had
color escape codes in it due to 6d280dc.
`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.
The new `--error-style` option decides how build failures are printed.
The default mode "verbose" prints all context including the step graph
fragment and the failed command (if any). The alternative mode "minimal"
prints only the failed step itself, and does not print the failed
command. There are also "verbose_clear" and "minimal_clear" modes, which
have the distinction that the output is cleared (through ANSI escape
codes) between updates, preventing different updates from being confused
in the output. If `--error-style` is not specified, the environment
variable `ZIG_BUILD_ERROR_STYLE` is checked before falling back to the
default of "verbose"; this means the value can effectively be chosen
system-wide since it is generally a personal preference.
Also introduced is a `--multiline-errors` option which decides how to
print errors which span multiple lines. By default, non-initial lines
are indented to align with the first. Alternatively, a leading newline
can be printed to align everyting on the first column, or no special
treatment can be applied, resulting in misaligned output. Again, there
is an environment variable (`ZIG_BUILD_MULTILINE_ERRORS`) to specify a
preferred default if the option is not explicitly provided.
Resolves: #23472
This is a major refactor to `Step.Run` which adds new functionality,
primarily to the execution of Zig tests.
* All tests are run, even if a test crashes. This happens through the
same mechanism as timeouts where the test processes is repeatedly
respawned as needed.
* The build status output is more precise. For each unit test, it
differentiates pass, skip, fail, crash, and timeout. Memory leaks are
reported separately, as they do not indicate a test's "status", but
are rather an additional property (a test with leaks may still pass!).
* The number of memory leaks is tracked and reported, both per-test and
for a whole `Run` step.
* Reporting is made clearer when a step is failed solely due to error
logs (`std.log.err`) where every unit test passed.
For now, there is a flag to `zig build` called `--test-timeout-ms` which
accepts a value in milliseconds. If the execution time of any individual
unit test exceeds that number of milliseconds, the test is terminated
and marked as timed out.
In the future, we may want to increase the granularity of this feature
by allowing timeouts to be specified per-step or even per-test. However,
a global option is actually very useful. In particular, it can be used
in CI scripts to ensure that no individual unit test exceeds some
reasonable limit (e.g. 60 seconds) without having to assign limits to
every individual test step in the build script.
Also, individual unit test durations are now shown in the time report
web interface -- this was fairly trivial to add since we're timing tests
(to check for timeouts) anyway.
This commit makes progress on #19821, but does not close it, because
that proposal includes a more sophisticated mechanism for setting
timeouts.
Co-Authored-By: David Rubin <david@vortan.dev>
Adds the limit option to `--fuzz=[limit]`. the limit expresses a number
of iterations that *each fuzz test* will perform at maximum before
exiting. The limit argument supports also 'K', 'M', and 'G' suffixeds
(e.g. '10K').
Does not imply `--web-ui` (like unlimited fuzzing does) and prints a
fuzzing report at the end.
Closes#22900 but does not implement the time based limit, as after
internal discussions we concluded to be problematic to both implement
and use correctly.
This was a regression in #24588.
I have verified that this patch works by confirming that with the
downstream patches SerenityOS apply to the Zig source tree (sans the one
working around this regression), I can build the build runner for
SerenityOS.
Resolves: #24682
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.
Deprecates all existing std.io readers and writers in favor of the newly
provided std.io.Reader and std.io.Writer which are non-generic and have the
buffer above the vtable - in other words the buffer is in the interface, not
the implementation. This means that although Reader and Writer are no longer
generic, they are still transparent to optimization; all of the interface
functions have a concrete hot path operating on the buffer, and only make
vtable calls when the buffer is full.
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
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()
We have no control over memory usage on arbitrary systems in the wild. But we
would still like to get the warnings so we can adjust the values based on
observations in the official ZSF CI.
Closes#23254.
Closes#23638.
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`.
It's incorrect to ever set `include_reference_trace` here, because the
compiler has already given or not given reference traces depending on
the `-freference-trace` option propagated to the compiler process by
`std.Build.Step.Compile`.
Perhaps in future we could make the compiler always return the reference
trace when communicating over the compiler protocol; that'd be more
versatile than the current behavior, because the build runner could, for
instance, show a reference trace on-demand without having to even invoke
the compiler. That seems really useful, since the reference trace is
*often* unnecessary noise, but *sometimes* essential. However, we don't
live in that world right now, so passing the option here doesn't make
sense.
Resolves: #23415
`--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>
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
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).
Currently -freference-trace only works when running from a terminal.
This is annoying if you're running in another environment or if you redirect the output.
But -freference-trace also works fine without the color, so change how the build runner is interpreting this option.
At the expense of a slight special case in the build runner, we can make
the handling of dependencies between modules a little shorter and much
easier to follow.
When module and step graphs are being constructed during the "configure"
phase, we do not set up step dependencies triggered by modules. Instead,
after the configure phase, the build runner traverses the whole
step/module graph, starting from the root top-level steps, and
configures all step dependencies implied by modules. The "make" phase
then proceeds as normal. Also, the old `Module.dependencyIterator` logic
is replaced by two separate iterables. `Module.getGraph` takes the root
module of a compilation, and returns all modules in its graph; while
`Step.Compile.getCompileDependencies` takes a `*Step.Compile` and
returns all `*Step.Compile` it depends on, recursively, possibly
excluding dynamic libraries. The old `Module.dependencyIterator`
combined these two functions into one unintuitive iterator; they are now
separated, which in particular helps readability at the usage sites
which only need one or the other.
The previous commit exposed some missing `const` qualifiers in a few
places. These mutable slices could have been used to store invalid
values into memory!
