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A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

• Introduction
• Download & Documentation
• Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
• Community
• Contributing
• Code of Conduct
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Community Projects

Note that you can download a binary of master branch or install Zig from a package manager.

This step must be repeated when you make changes to any of the C++ source code.

• cmake >= 2.8.5
• gcc >= 5.0.0 or clang >= 3.6.0
• LLVM, Clang, LLD development libraries == 11.x, compiled with the same gcc or clang version above
  • Use the system package manager, or build from source.

• cmake >= 3.15.3
• Microsoft Visual Studio. Supported versions:
  • 2017 (version 15.8)
  • 2019 (version 16)
• LLVM, Clang, LLD development libraries == 11.x
  • Use the pre-built binaries or build from source.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make install

Need help? Troubleshooting Build Issues

brew install cmake llvm
brew outdated llvm || brew upgrade llvm
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$(brew --prefix llvm)
make install

See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Building-Zig-on-Windows

Now we use the stage1 binary:

zig build --prefix $(pwd)/stage2 -Denable-llvm

This produces stage2/bin/zig which can be used for testing and development. Once it is feature complete, it will be used to build stage 3 - the final compiler binary.

Note: Stage 2 compiler is not yet able to build Stage 3. Building Stage 3 is not yet supported.

Once the self-hosted compiler can build itself, this will be the actual compiler binary that we will install to the system. Until then, users should use stage 1.

stage2/bin/zig build

This produces zig-cache/bin/zig.

stage2/bin/zig build install -Drelease

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.