Zig Build System

1. zig

   1 855 36,516 10.0 Zig

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

   

   Looks like people behind Zig decided to drop support for macOS Catalina, OS released just 3 years ago. So it is not possible to compile Zig for it. It is ridiculous. https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/13313#issuecomment-129...

2. SaaSHub

   www.saashub.com featured

   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. arocc

   2 12 1,173 9.4 Zig

   A modern fully featured C compiler.

   Zig calls clang to compile C code. This doesn't add a new dependency since Zig already depends on LLVM. In the future when Zig doesn't depend as much on LLVM, there might be a reason to use a C compiler written in Zig (e.g. https://github.com/Vexu/arocc)

4. CodeLLDB

   3 23 2,658 8.6 Rust

   A native debugger extension for VSCode based on LLDB

   

   I use VS Code on Linux to debug Zig. Haven't tried the others you mentioned, but it just emits standard DWARF symbols, so I'm guessing if you can debug C/C++ you could probably also do Zig with minimal changes? I just use the lldb VS code plugin[0], which works out of the box for me with no issues.

   https://github.com/vadimcn/codelldb

5. sokol-zig

   4 9 397 8.9 C

   Zig bindings for the sokol headers (https://github.com/floooh/sokol)

   

   IMHO you really need a programming language to describe a build, even when the result looks very declarative.

   E.g. not sure how Meson handles this, but when I have a project with dozens of similar build targets and platform specific compile options, I really want to do the build description in a loop instead of a data tree.

   (for example: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig/blob/3f978e58712f9eb029b...)

6. raylib-zig

   5 2 823 8.7 Zig

   Manually tweaked, auto-generated raylib bindings for zig. https://github.com/raysan5/raylib

   

   There's also a project that generates automatic bindings for raylib:

   https://github.com/Not-Nik/raylib-zig

7. ffmpeg

   6 4 197 9.4 C

   FFmpeg Zig package (by allyourcodebase)

   

   If you want to see a fun example of this build system in action, have a look at my ffmpeg fork which has the build system ported to zig build:

   https://github.com/andrewrk/ffmpeg

   Particularly interesting is the use of nasm as a package dependency, which is executed to compile many assembly files into object files, then linked into the ffmpeg static library.

   I'm using this package in a work-in-progress reboot of Groove Basin (a music player server) in Zig:

   https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/tree/zig-pkg

   Point being that if you want to collaborate on the music player project, you don't need to screw around with a million system dependencies, it's just `zig build` and you're off to the races - no matter whether you are using Windows, macOS, or Linux.

   The zig build system is under heavy construction during this release cycle of Zig. I recommend to check it out at the end of May when Zig 0.11.0 is released, and a few more issues will be smoothed over. Of course, if you want to get your hands dirty and help work on a bleeding-edge build system & package manager, come on over and give master branch a try.

8. Groove Basin

   7 3 1,912 0.0 JavaScript

   Music player server with a web-based user interface.

   If you want to see a fun example of this build system in action, have a look at my ffmpeg fork which has the build system ported to zig build:

   https://github.com/andrewrk/ffmpeg

   Particularly interesting is the use of nasm as a package dependency, which is executed to compile many assembly files into object files, then linked into the ffmpeg static library.

   I'm using this package in a work-in-progress reboot of Groove Basin (a music player server) in Zig:

   https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/tree/zig-pkg

   Point being that if you want to collaborate on the music player project, you don't need to screw around with a million system dependencies, it's just `zig build` and you're off to the races - no matter whether you are using Windows, macOS, or Linux.

   The zig build system is under heavy construction during this release cycle of Zig. I recommend to check it out at the end of May when Zig 0.11.0 is released, and a few more issues will be smoothed over. Of course, if you want to get your hands dirty and help work on a bleeding-edge build system & package manager, come on over and give master branch a try.

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