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This creates a new step that can run foreign binaries when emulation is enabled using options such as `enable_qemu`. When an incompatible binary is found, the binary will not be executed. This differs from `RunStep` which will always execute a binary, regardless of the compatibility. This is useful for usecases where the user wishes to allow for running the binary on any supported platform either natively or through emulation, but not generate an error when met with an incompatibility. The above is useful when creating test cases that rely on running the binary and optionally verifying its output. The addition of this Step was generated by the need for our linker tests. For that reason, a handy function was created on `CheckObjectStep` to ease the setup for that.
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.