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Otherwise, Apple's tooling goes mental and reports that the executable is malformed/fails strict validation. We absolutely have to get it right to support tools such `codesign` which are required to successfully launch an app on an iOS device for instance. When Zig matures enough so that we can ditch any Apple tooling and still be able to successfully codesign for iOS and other, we can revisit this area. Until then however, we are stuck in having to rewrite the LINKEDIT segment at every update run of the self-hosted. FYI, the strict layout for the MachO binary apparently is (please, read this with a pinch of salt as this is inferred by me): * __TEXT segment * __DATA_CONST segment * __DATA segment * __LINKEDIT segment * dyld info (rebase, bind, weak bind, lazy bind, export) * symbol table * dynamic symbol table * string table * code signature (if expected)
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.