Zig build system

[3052]

you should document using Zig as the build system as well - example command

zig.exe cc main.c todo.c gui.c -o todo.exe '-Wl,--subsystem,windows' -lgdi32

Zig is actually the smallest Windows build system I am aware of - for example here are the extracted sizes:

1. https://ziglang.org/download
   • 314 547 631 bytes
2. https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit
   • 408 475 724 bytes
3. https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw
   • 618 436 547 bytes
4. https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries
   • 737 536 677 bytes
5. https://github.com/brechtsanders/winlibs_mingw
   • 914 952 615 bytes

[Efeckc17]

Thanks! That’s actually a cool alternative — though my goal here was to keep it pure C with MinGW and minimal tooling. Zig is interesting though, I might experiment with it in another project :)

[3052]

I think Zig is a minimal option - for example you can just download this

https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/zig-windows-x86_64-0.14.0.zip

78 MB, extract and you are done - no other downloads are needed to compile your project

[Efeckc17]

Yes, I'm downloading Zig to try it out. Thank you for the recommendation and suggestion! :D

[3052]

fast for me

> curl -O https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/zig-windows-x86_64-0.14.0.zip
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 78.4M  100 78.4M    0     0  14.6M      0  0:00:05  0:00:05 --:--:-- 18.2M

[chrsw]

I think Zig is a minimal option - for example you can just download this

https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/zig-windows-x86_64-0.14.0.zip

78 MB, extract and you are done - no other downloads are needed to compile your project

One file dependency is nice. Can this be achieved with C?