Adds `addFileContentArg` and `addPrefixedFileContentArg` to pass the content
of a file with a lazy path as an argument to a `std.Build.Step.Run`.
This enables replicating shell `$()` / cmake `execute_process` with `OUTPUT_VARIABLE`
as an input to another `execute_process` in conjuction with `captureStdOut`/`captureStdErr`.
To also be able to replicate `$()` automatically trimming trailing newlines and cmake
`OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE`, this patch adds an `options` arg to those functions
which allows specifying the desired handling of surrounding whitespace.
The `options` arg also allows to specify a custom `basename` for the output. e.g.
to add a file extension (concrete use case: Zig `@import()` requires files to have a
`.zig`/`.zon` extension to recognize them as valid source files).
Fixes#23993
Previously, if multiple build processes tried to create the same args file, there was a race condition with the use of the non-atomic `writeFile` function which could cause a spawned compiler to read an empty or incomplete args file. This commit avoids the race condition by first writing to a temporary file with a random path and renaming it to the desired path.
Writer.sendFileAll() asserts non-zero buffer capacity in the case that
the fallback is hit. It also requires the caller to flush. The buffer
may be bypassed as an optimization but this is not a guarantee.
Also improve the Writer documentation and add an earlier assert on
buffer capacity in sendFileAll().
This "get" is useless noise and was copied from FixedBufferWriter.
Since this API has not yet landed in a release, now is a good time
to make the breaking change to fix this.
Previously, this only applied when using `-fincremental --watch`, but
`--webui` makes the build runner stay alive just like `--watch` does, so
the same logic applies here. Without this, attempting to perform
incremental updates with `--webui` performs full rebuilds. (I did test
that before merging the PR, but at that time I was passing `--watch`
too -- which has since been disallowed -- so I missed that it doesn't
work as expected without that option!)
This commit replaces the "fuzzer" UI, previously accessed with the
`--fuzz` and `--port` flags, with a more interesting web UI which allows
more interactions with the Zig build system. Most notably, it allows
accessing the data emitted by a new "time report" system, which allows
users to see which parts of Zig programs take the longest to compile.
The option to expose the web UI is `--webui`. By default, it will listen
on `[::1]` on a random port, but any IPv6 or IPv4 address can be
specified with e.g. `--webui=[::1]:8000` or `--webui=127.0.0.1:8000`.
The options `--fuzz` and `--time-report` both imply `--webui` if not
given. Currently, `--webui` is incompatible with `--watch`; specifying
both will cause `zig build` to exit with a fatal error.
When the web UI is enabled, the build runner spawns the web server as
soon as the configure phase completes. The frontend code consists of one
HTML file, one JavaScript file, two CSS files, and a few Zig source
files which are built into a WASM blob on-demand -- this is all very
similar to the old fuzzer UI. Also inherited from the fuzzer UI is that
the build system communicates with web clients over a WebSocket
connection.
When the build finishes, if `--webui` was passed (i.e. if the web server
is running), the build runner does not terminate; it continues running
to serve web requests, allowing interactive control of the build system.
In the web interface is an overall "status" indicating whether a build
is currently running, and also a list of all steps in this build. There
are visual indicators (colors and spinners) for in-progress, succeeded,
and failed steps. There is a "Rebuild" button which will cause the build
system to reset the state of every step (note that this does not affect
caching) and evaluate the step graph again.
If `--time-report` is passed to `zig build`, a new section of the
interface becomes visible, which associates every build step with a
"time report". For most steps, this is just a simple "time taken" value.
However, for `Compile` steps, the compiler communicates with the build
system to provide it with much more interesting information: time taken
for various pipeline phases, with a per-declaration and per-file
breakdown, sorted by slowest declarations/files first. This feature is
still in its early stages: the data can be a little tricky to
understand, and there is no way to, for instance, sort by different
properties, or filter to certain files. However, it has already given us
some interesting statistics, and can be useful for spotting, for
instance, particularly complex and slow compile-time logic.
Additionally, if a compilation uses LLVM, its time report includes the
"LLVM pass timing" information, which was previously accessible with the
(now removed) `-ftime-report` compiler flag.
To make time reports more useful, ZIR and compilation caches are ignored
by the Zig compiler when they are enabled -- in other words, `Compile`
steps *always* run, even if their result should be cached. This means
that the flag can be used to analyze a project's compile time without
having to repeatedly clear cache directory, for instance. However, when
using `-fincremental`, updates other than the first will only show you
the statistics for what changed on that particular update. Notably, this
gives us a fairly nice way to see exactly which declarations were
re-analyzed by an incremental update.
If `--fuzz` is passed to `zig build`, another section of the web
interface becomes visible, this time exposing the fuzzer. This is quite
similar to the fuzzer UI this commit replaces, with only a few cosmetic
tweaks. The interface is closer than before to supporting multiple fuzz
steps at a time (in line with the overall strategy for this build UI,
the goal will be for all of the fuzz steps to be accessible in the same
interface), but still doesn't actually support it. The fuzzer UI looks
quite different under the hood: as a result, various bugs are fixed,
although other bugs remain. For instance, viewing the source code of any
file other than the root of the main module is completely broken (as on
master) due to some bogus file-to-module assignment logic in the fuzzer
UI.
Implementation notes:
* The `lib/build-web/` directory holds the client side of the web UI.
* The general server logic is in `std.Build.WebServer`.
* Fuzzing-specific logic is in `std.Build.Fuzz`.
* `std.Build.abi` is the new home of `std.Build.Fuzz.abi`, since it now
relates to the build system web UI in general.
* The build runner now has an **actual** general-purpose allocator,
because thanks to `--watch` and `--webui`, the process can be
arbitrarily long-lived. The gpa is `std.heap.DebugAllocator`, but the
arena remains backed by `std.heap.page_allocator` for efficiency. I
fixed several crashes caused by conflation of `gpa` and `arena` in the
build runner and `std.Build`, but there may still be some I have
missed.
* The I/O logic in `std.Build.WebServer` is pretty gnarly; there are a
*lot* of threads involved. I anticipate this situation improving
significantly once the `std.Io` interface (with concurrency support)
is introduced.
when a Run step that captures stderr fails, no output from it is visible
by the user and, since the step failed, any downstream step that would
process the captured stream will not run, making it impossible for the
user to see the stderr output from the failed process invocation, which
makes for a frustrating puzzle when this happens in CI.
Not only are `Step.Compile` methods like `linkLibC()` redundant because
`Module` exposes the same APIs, it also might not be immediately obvious
to users that these methods modify the underlying root module, which can
be a footgun and lead to unintended results if the module is exported to
package consumers or shared by multiple compile steps.
Using `compile.root_module.link_libc = true` makes it more clear to
users which of the compile step and the module owns which options.
This silences the excessive default stderr logging from Wine. The user can still
override this by setting WINEDEBUG in the environment; this just provides a more
sensible default.
Closes#24139.
Basically everything that has a direct replacement or no uses left.
Notable omissions:
- std.ArrayHashMap: Too much fallout, needs a separate cleanup.
- std.debug.runtime_safety: Too much fallout.
- std.heap.GeneralPurposeAllocator: Lots of references to it remain, not
a simple find and replace as "debug allocator" is not equivalent to
"general purpose allocator".
- std.io.Reader: Is being reworked at the moment.
- std.unicode.utf8Decode(): No replacement, needs a new API first.
- Manifest backwards compat options: Removal would break test data used
by TestFetchBuilder.
- panic handler needs to be a namespace: Many tests still rely on it
being a function, needs a separate cleanup.
Alignment and fill options only apply to numbers.
Rework the implementation to mainly branch on the format string rather
than the type information. This is more straightforward to maintain and
more straightforward for comptime evaluation.
Enums support being printed as decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary.
`formatInteger` is another possible format method that is
unconditionally called when the value type is struct and one of the
integer-printing format specifiers are used.
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()
e.g. `x86_64-windows.win10...win11_dt-gnu` -> `x86_64-windows-gnu`
When the OS version is the default this is redundant with checking the
default in the standard library.
This is necessary in two cases:
* On POSIX, the exe path (`argv[0]`) must contain a path separator
* Some programs might treat a file named e.g. `-foo` as a flag, which
can be avoided by passing `./-foo`
Rather than detecting these two cases, just always include the prefix;
there's no harm in it.
Also, if the cwd is specified, include it in the manifest. If the user
has set the cwd of a Run step, it is clearly because this affects the
behavior of the executable somehow, so that cwd path should be a part of
the step's manifest.
Resolves: #24216
`std.Build.Step.ConfigHeader` emits a *directory* containing a config
header under a given sub path, but there's no good way to actually
access that directory as a `LazyPath` in the configure phase. This is
silly; it's perfectly valid to refer to that directory, perhaps to
explicitly pass as a "-I" flag to a different toolchain invoked via a
`Step.Run`. So now, instead of the `GeneratedFile` being the actual
*file*, it should be that *directory*, i.e. `cache/o/<digest>`. We can
then easily get the *file* if needed just by using `LazyPath.path` to go
"deeper", which there is a helper function for.
The legacy `getOutput` function is now a deprecated alias for
`getOutputFile`, and `getOutputDir` is introduced.
`std.Build.Module.IncludeDir.appendZigProcessFlags` needed a fix after
this change, so I took the opportunity to refactor it a little. I was
looking at this function while working on ziglang/translate-c yesterday
and realised it could be expressed much more simply -- particularly
after the `ConfigHeader` change here.
I had to update the test `standalone/cmakedefine/` -- it turns out this
test was well and truly reaching into build system internals, and doing
horrible not-really-allowed stuff like overriding the `makeFn` of a
`TopLevelStep`. To top it all off, the test forgot to set
`b.default_step` to its "test" step, so the test never even ran. I've
refactored it to follow accepted practices and to actually, like, work.
Because any `LazyPath` might be resolved to a relative path, it's
incorrect to pass that directly to a child process whose cwd might
differ. Instead, if the child has an overriden cwd, we need to convert
such paths to be relative to the child cwd using `std.fs.path.relative`.
Previously, various doc comments heavily disagreed with the
implementation on both what lives where on the filesystem at what time,
and how that was represented in code. Notably, the combination of emit
paths outside the cache and `disable_lld_caching` created a kind of
ad-hoc "cache disable" mechanism -- which didn't actually *work* very
well, 'most everything still ended up in this cache. There was also a
long-standing issue where building using the LLVM backend would put a
random object file in your cwd.
This commit reworks how emit paths are specified in
`Compilation.CreateOptions`, how they are represented internally, and
how the cache usage is specified.
There are now 3 options for `Compilation.CacheMode`:
* `.none`: do not use the cache. The paths we have to emit to are
relative to the compiler cwd (they're either user-specified, or
defaults inferred from the root name). If we create any temporary
files (e.g. the ZCU object when using the LLVM backend) they are
emitted to a directory in `local_cache/tmp/`, which is deleted once
the update finishes.
* `.whole`: cache the compilation based on all inputs, including file
contents. All emit paths are computed by the compiler (and will be
stored as relative to the local cache directory); it is a CLI error to
specify an explicit emit path. Artifacts (including temporary files)
are written to a directory under `local_cache/tmp/`, which is later
renamed to an appropriate `local_cache/o/`. The caller (who is using
`--listen`; e.g. the build system) learns the name of this directory,
and can get the artifacts from it.
* `.incremental`: similar to `.whole`, but Zig source file contents, and
anything else which incremental compilation can handle changes for, is
not included in the cache manifest. We don't need to do the dance
where the output directory is initially in `tmp/`, because our digest
is computed entirely from CLI inputs.
To be clear, the difference between `CacheMode.whole` and
`CacheMode.incremental` is unchanged. `CacheMode.none` is new
(previously it was sort of poorly imitated with `CacheMode.whole`). The
defined behavior for temporary/intermediate files is new.
`.none` is used for direct CLI invocations like `zig build-exe foo.zig`.
The other cache modes are reserved for `--listen`, and the cache mode in
use is currently just based on the presence of the `-fincremental` flag.
There are two cases in which `CacheMode.whole` is used despite there
being no `--listen` flag: `zig test` and `zig run`. Unless an explicit
`-femit-bin=xxx` argument is passed on the CLI, these subcommands will
use `CacheMode.whole`, so that they can put the output somewhere without
polluting the cwd (plus, caching is potentially more useful for direct
usage of these subcommands).
Users of `--listen` (such as the build system) can now use
`std.zig.EmitArtifact.cacheName` to find out what an output will be
named. This avoids having to synchronize logic between the compiler and
all users of `--listen`.
In a compiler built with debug extensions, pass `--debug-incremental` to
spawn the "incremental debug server". This is a TCP server exposing a
REPL which allows querying a bunch of compiler state, some of which is
stored only when that flag is passed. Eventually, this will probably
move into `std.zig.Server`/`std.zig.Client`, but this is easier to work
with right now. The easiest way to interact with the server is `telnet`.
Right now, if you override the build root with `--build-root`, then
`Run` steps can fail to execute because of incorrect path handling in
the compiler: `std.process.Child` gets a cwd-relative path, but also has
its cwd set to the build root. The latter behavior is really weird; it
doesn't match my expectations, nor does it match how we spawn child
`zig` processes. So, this commit makes the child process inherit the
build runner's cwd, as `LazyPath.getPath2` *expects* it to.
After investigating, this behavior dates all the way back to 2017; it
was introduced in 4543413. So, there isn't any clear/documented reason
for this; it should be safe to revert, since under the modern `LazyPath`
system it is strictly a bug AFAICT.
