misc zig

[timotheecour]

• brew install --HEAD zig
  fails
• brew install zig
  fails

pending ziglang/zig#4799
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"getPollyPluginInfo()", referenced from:

[timotheecour]

• Treat zig like clang/gcc wrt integer arithmetic. by hessammehr · Pull Request #13957 · nim-lang/Nim : Treat zig like clang/gcc wrt integer arithmetic. by hessammehr · Pull Request #13957 · nim-lang/Nim
• try:
  Add support for zig cc as C compiler. nim-lang/Nim#13757 (comment)

What version of zig are you using? zig cc is only a drop-in replacement for clang in master afaik. The first official release with this functionality is 0.6.

FWIW, 0.6.0 is scheduled to be released on Monday.

[timotheecour]

can't build a working zig:

• brew install zig installs broken zig: Unable to find target for this triple (no targets are registered) · Issue #53198 · Homebrew/homebrew-core : brew install zig installs broken zig: Unable to find target for this triple (no targets are registered) · Issue #53198 · Homebrew/homebrew-core

• osx: error: unable to create target: 'Unable to find target for this triple (no targets are registered)' · Issue #5055 · ziglang/zig : osx: error: unable to create target: 'Unable to find target for this triple (no targets are registered)' · Issue #5055 · ziglang/zig

[timotheecour]

• zig config
  zig runtime configuration options: zig config and how it relates to zig-cache location ziglang/zig#2170 (comment)
  --cache-dir

[timotheecour]

zig config was disabled here: 1b2b321 2020-05-06 06:37 rumpf_a o cleanup the CC setting, only leave in there what is at least semi-officially supported