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The CLI gains -flto and -fno-lto options to override the default. However, the cool thing about this is that the defaults are great! In general when you use build-exe in release mode, Zig will enable LTO if it would work and it would help. zig cc supports detecting and honoring the -flto and -fno-lto flags as well. The linkWithLld functions are improved to all be the same with regards to copying the artifact instead of trying to pass single objects through LLD with -r. There is possibly a future improvement here as well; see the respective TODOs. stage1 is updated to support outputting LLVM bitcode instead of machine code when lto is enabled. This allows LLVM to optimize across the Zig and C/C++ code boundary. closes #2845
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
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- download a pre-built binary
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- bootstrap zig for any target
License
The ultimate goal of the Zig project is to serve users. As a first-order effect, this means users of the compiler, helping programmers to write better software. Even more important, however, are the end-users.
Zig is intended to be used to help end-users accomplish their goals. Zig should be used to empower end-users, never to exploit them financially, or to limit their freedom to interact with hardware or software in any way.
However, such problems are best solved with social norms, not with software licenses. Any attempt to complicate the software license of Zig would risk compromising the value Zig provides.
Therefore, Zig is available under the MIT (Expat) License, and comes with a humble request: use it to make software better serve the needs of end-users.
This project redistributes code from other projects, some of which have other licenses besides MIT. Such licenses are generally similar to the MIT license for practical purposes. See the subdirectories and files inside lib/ for more details.