Stream: compiler development

Topic: Zig 0.12.0

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Jan 30 2024 at 12:02):

Are we tracking any issues with Zig we want included in 0.12.0? I saw the zig roadmap video from Andrew and he's keen to include fixes for all the real world projects so people can pin to that version, and I didn't see roc mentioned. If we have anything significant we could add our issues to that milestone. The windows slow dynamic library thing comes to mind, not sure if there is anything else?

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view this post on Zulip Folkert de Vries (Jan 30 2024 at 12:28):

for completeness, alignment of u128/i128 being 16 on x86

view this post on Zulip Brian Carroll (Jan 30 2024 at 13:24):

See also https://roc.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/395097-compiler-development/topic/Zig.20roadmap

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Apr 21 2024 at 05:45):

https://ziglang.org/download/0.12.0/release-notes.html

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Apr 21 2024 at 05:45):

Zig 0.12 just got released :tada:

view this post on Zulip Brendan Hansknecht (Apr 21 2024 at 14:51):

Wow, big release. Also, I guess roc can now use a smaller version of zig that doesn't have llvm (though it is still early and we probably don't want it yet):

Zig now generates LLVM bitcode module files directly and then passes those to LLVM. This means that a Zig compiler built without LLVM libraries can still produce .bc files, which can then be passed to clang for compilation.

view this post on Zulip Brendan Hansknecht (Apr 21 2024 at 14:52):

I like that split. Can generate bitcode, but doesn't actually have to depend on llvm at all

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Jun 12 2024 at 09:10):

These were the builtin changes to upgrade from 0.11.0 to 0.12.0, thanks @Bryce Miller

I'm wondering if it's time we look at upgrading Roc to zig 12 now too?

I think zig 12 improves support for WASI and linking WASM modules so this will make the change to platform's owning building binaries easier.

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Jun 12 2024 at 09:10):

Or maybe we jump straight to zig 0.13.0?

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Jun 12 2024 at 09:13):

I guess we would want to upgrade LLVM though too.

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (Jun 12 2024 at 10:07):

@Folkert de Vries is upgrading LLVM painfree?

view this post on Zulip Folkert de Vries (Jun 12 2024 at 11:21):

it's never entirely painfree but I have no reason to assume major issues. It looks like inkwell already supports 0.18 so that should not be a problem either

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