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Currently `zig cc`, when confronted with a linker argument it does not understand, skips the flag and emits a warning. This has been causing headaches for people that build third-party software (including me). Zig seemingly builds and links the final executable, only to segfault when running it. If there are linker warnings when compiling software, the first thing we have to do is add support for ones linker is complaining, and only then go file issues. If zig "successfully" (i.e. status code = 0) compiles a binary, there is instead a tendency to blaim "zig doing something weird". (I am guilty of this.) In my experience, adding the unsupported arguments has been quite easy; see #11679, #11875, #11874 for recent examples. With the current ones (+ prerequisites below) I was able to build all of the CGo programs that I am encountering at $dayjob. CGo is a reasonable example, because it is exercising the unusual linker args quite a bit. Prerequisites: #11614 and #11863.
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.