Zig

Zig is a programming language that tries to be a modern C. Thanks to being a C-compatible compiler, it is a really good option for compiling C on Windows

WARNING

Zig is still not stable yet. Therefore we are installing the latest dev version from the website instead of through package managers

Install

• Windows:
  1. Download ZIP from https://ziglang.org/download/ and put it in Downloads
  2. Set version for scripts

     $version="0.14.0-dev.2079+ba2d00663"

  3. Extract it

     7z x -y ~/Downloads/zig-windows-x86_64-$version.zip "-o$HOME/dotbin/extra/portable"

  4. Configure link

     Add-Content -Path ~\dotbin\extra\portable\link -Value "zig-*/zig.exe"
     sudo dotbin-link

  5. Verify installation

     zig version

  6. Exclude zig from Windows Defender so compilation is faster

     Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath ~/dotbin
     Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess zig

     WARNING

     Run as admin!

• Linux
  1. Set version for scripts

     VERSION="0.14.0-dev.2079+ba2d00663"

  2. Download and extract

     wget https://ziglang.org/builds/zig-linux-x86_64-$VERSION.tar.xz -O ~/zig-$VERSION.tar.xz
     7z x -y ~/zig-$VERSION.tar.xz -so | 7z x -y -si -ttar "-o$HOME/dotbin/extra/portable"
     chmod +x ~/dotbin/extra/portable/zig-*/zig

  3. Configure link

     echo "zig-*/zig" >> ~/dotbin/extra/portable/link
     dotbin-link

  4. Verify installation

     zig version