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Currently transitive system library dependencies are always linked using linkSystemLibrary() and therefore pkg-config even if they were originally specified with linkSystemLibraryName() instead. This causes problems in practice for projects needing total control over exactly what library is linked, such as the mach game engine. This is fixed by keeping track of whether libraries are to be linked with pkg-config or not and holding off on actually running pkg-config until after transitive dependency resolution in LibExeObjStep.make(). This also fixes a separate issue with the pkg-config handling that could cause partial application of pkg-config flags if the first part of the pkg-config output parses correctly but there is an error later on. This error isn't always fatal as we fall back to a plain -lfoo in the case of linkSystemLibrary().
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
- Community
- Contributing
- Code of Conduct
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Community Projects
Installation
- download a pre-built binary
- install from a package manager
- build from source
- 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.