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build.zig: add a 'compile' step to compile the self-hosted compiler without installing it. Compilation: set cache mode to whole when using the LLVM backend and --enable-cache is passed. This makes `zig build` act the same as it does with stage1. Upside is that a second invocation of `zig build` on an unmodified source tree will avoid redoing the compilation again. Downside is that it will proliferate more garbage in the project-local cache (same as stage1). This can eventually be fixed when Zig's incremental compilation is more robust; we can go back to having LLVM use CacheMode.incremental and rely on it detecting no changes and avoiding doing the flush() step. |
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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.