`std.Io.tty.Config.detect` may be an expensive check (e.g. involving
syscalls), and doing it every time we need to print isn't really
necessary; under normal usage, we can compute the value once and cache
it for the whole program's execution. Since anyone outputting to stderr
may reasonably want this information (in fact they are very likely to),
it makes sense to cache it and return it from `lockStderrWriter`. Call
sites who do not need it will experience no significant overhead, and
can just ignore the TTY config with a `const w, _` destructure.
added adapter to AnyWriter and GenericWriter to help bridge the gap
between old and new API
make std.testing.expectFmt work at compile-time
std.fmt no longer has a dependency on std.unicode. Formatted printing
was never properly unicode-aware. Now it no longer pretends to be.
Breakage/deprecations:
* std.fs.File.reader -> std.fs.File.deprecatedReader
* std.fs.File.writer -> std.fs.File.deprecatedWriter
* std.io.GenericReader -> std.io.Reader
* std.io.GenericWriter -> std.io.Writer
* std.io.AnyReader -> std.io.Reader
* std.io.AnyWriter -> std.io.Writer
* std.fmt.format -> std.fmt.deprecatedFormat
* std.fmt.fmtSliceEscapeLower -> std.ascii.hexEscape
* std.fmt.fmtSliceEscapeUpper -> std.ascii.hexEscape
* std.fmt.fmtSliceHexLower -> {x}
* std.fmt.fmtSliceHexUpper -> {X}
* std.fmt.fmtIntSizeDec -> {B}
* std.fmt.fmtIntSizeBin -> {Bi}
* std.fmt.fmtDuration -> {D}
* std.fmt.fmtDurationSigned -> {D}
* {} -> {f} when there is a format method
* format method signature
- anytype -> *std.io.Writer
- inferred error set -> error{WriteFailed}
- options -> (deleted)
* std.fmt.Formatted
- now takes context type explicitly
- no fmt string
preparing to rearrange std.io namespace into an interface
how to upgrade:
std.io.getStdIn() -> std.fs.File.stdin()
std.io.getStdOut() -> std.fs.File.stdout()
std.io.getStdErr() -> std.fs.File.stderr()
When determining the type of RC compiler, meson passes `/?` or `--version` and then reads from `stdout` looking for particular string(s) anywhere in the output.
So, by adding the string "Microsoft Resource Compiler" to the `/?` output, meson will recognize `zig rc` as rc.exe and give it the correct options, which works fine since `zig rc` is drop-in CLI compatible with rc.exe.
This allows using `zig rc` with meson for (cross-)compiling, by either:
- Setting WINDRES="zig rc" or putting windres = ['zig', 'rc'] in the cross-file
+ This will work like rc.exe, so it will output .res files. This will only link successfully if you are using a linker that can do .res -> .obj conversion (so something like zig cc, MSVC, lld)
- Setting WINDRES="zig rc /:output-format coff" or putting windres = ['zig', 'rc', '/:output-format', 'coff'] in the cross-file
+ This will make meson pass flags as if it were rc.exe, but it will cause the resulting .res file to actually be a COFF object file, meaning it will work with any linker that handles COFF object files
Example cross file that uses `zig cc` (which can link `.res` files, so `/:output-format coff` is not necessary) and `zig rc`:
```
[binaries]
c = ['zig', 'cc', '--target=x86_64-windows-gnu']
windres = ['zig', 'rc']
[target_machine]
system = 'windows'
cpu_family = 'x86_64'
cpu = 'x86_64'
endian = 'little'
```
In #22522 I said:
> RC="zig rc" will now work in combination with zig cc and CMake. Here's an example of cross-compiling a simple Windows GUI CMake project
>
> $ RC="zig rc" CC="zig cc --target=x86_64-windows-gnu" cmake .. -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows -G Ninja
However, I didn't realize that the time that this only works because of the `-G Ninja` part. When not using Ninja as the build tool, CMake adds a workaround for 'very long lists of object files' where it takes all object files and runs them through `ar` to combine them into one archive:
4a11fd8dde/Modules/Platform/Windows-GNU.cmake (L141-L158)
This is a problem for the Windows resource use-case, because `ar` doesn't know how to deal with `.res` files and so this object combining step fails with:
unknown file type: foo.rc.res
Only the linker knows what to do with .res files (since it has its own `.res` -> `.obj` ('cvtres') conversion mechanism). So, when using Ninja, this object file combining step is skipped and the .res file gets passed to the linker and everyone is happy.
Note: When CMake thinks that its using `windres` as the Windows resource compiler, it will pass `-O coff` to windres which causes it to output a COFF object file instead of a `.res` file, which means that the `ar` step can succeed because it's only working on actual object files.
---
This commit gives `zig rc` the ability to output COFF object files directly when `/:output-format coff` is provided as an argument. This effectively matches what happens when CMake uses `windres` for resource compilation, but requires the argument to be provided explicitly.
So, after this change, the following CMake cross-compilation use case will work, even when not using Ninja as the generator:
RC="zig rc /:output-format coff" CC="zig cc --target=x86_64-windows-gnu" cmake .. -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Windows
Note: This mostly matches resinator v0.1.0 rather than the latest master version, since the latest master version focuses on adding support for .res -> .obj conversion which is not necessary for the future planned relationship of zig and resinator (resinator will likely be moved out of the compiler and into the build system, a la translate-c).
So, ultimately the changes here consist mostly of bug fixes for obscure edge cases.
Deprecated aliases that are now compile errors:
- `std.fs.MAX_PATH_BYTES` (renamed to `std.fs.max_path_bytes`)
- `std.mem.tokenize` (split into `tokenizeAny`, `tokenizeSequence`, `tokenizeScalar`)
- `std.mem.split` (split into `splitSequence`, `splitAny`, `splitScalar`)
- `std.mem.splitBackwards` (split into `splitBackwardsSequence`, `splitBackwardsAny`, `splitBackwardsScalar`)
- `std.unicode`
+ `utf16leToUtf8Alloc`, `utf16leToUtf8AllocZ`, `utf16leToUtf8`, `fmtUtf16le` (all renamed to have capitalized `Le`)
+ `utf8ToUtf16LeWithNull` (renamed to `utf8ToUtf16LeAllocZ`)
- `std.zig.CrossTarget` (moved to `std.Target.Query`)
Deprecated `lib/std/std.zig` decls were deleted instead of made a `@compileError` because the `refAllDecls` in the test block would trigger the `@compileError`. The deleted top-level `std` namespaces are:
- `std.rand` (renamed to `std.Random`)
- `std.TailQueue` (renamed to `std.DoublyLinkedList`)
- `std.ChildProcess` (renamed/moved to `std.process.Child`)
This is not exhaustive. Deprecated aliases that I didn't touch:
+ `std.io.*`
+ `std.Build.*`
+ `std.builtin.Mode`
+ `std.zig.c_translation.CIntLiteralRadix`
+ anything in `src/`
This moves .rc/.manifest compilation out of the main Zig binary, contributing towards #19063
Also:
- Make resinator use Aro as its preprocessor instead of clang
- Sync resinator with upstream
