The idea here is that the zig2 executable is perhaps the more useful
deliverable until we implement our own optimization passes. This will
allow system packages to provide Zig, and use it to compile Zig
projects, all without LLVM!
When a zig compiler without LLVM extensions is satisfactory, this
greatly simplified build-from-source process can be used.
This could be useful for users who only want to contribute to the
standard library, for example.
The readme now links to the wiki for instructions on building from
source. I plan to make many updates to the wiki soon as I start to
provide tarballs for working on the compiler.
Conflicts:
cmake/Findllvm.cmake
The llvm11 branch changed 10's to 11's and master branch added the
"using LLVM_CONFIG_EXE" help message, so the resolution was to merge
these changes together.
I also added a check to make sure LLVM is built with AVR enabled, which
is no longer an experimental target.
Deleted 16,000+ lines of c++ code, including:
* an implementation of blake hashing
* the cache hash system
* compiler.cpp
* all the linking code, and everything having to do with building
glibc, musl, and mingw-w64
* much of the stage1 compiler internals got slimmed down since it
now assumes it is always outputting an object file.
More stuff:
* stage1 is now built with a different strategy: we have a tiny
zig0.cpp which is a slimmed down version of what stage1 main.cpp used
to be. Its only purpose is to build stage2 zig code into an object
file, which is then linked by the host build system (cmake) into
stage1. zig0.cpp uses the same C API that stage2 now has access to,
so that stage2 zig code can call into stage1 c++ code.
- stage1.h is
- stage2.h is
- stage1.zig is the main entry point for the Zig/C++
hybrid compiler. It has the functions exported from Zig, called
in C++, and bindings for the functions exported from C++, called
from Zig.
* removed the memory profiling instrumentation from stage1.
Abandon ship!
* Re-added the sections to the README about how to build stage2 and
stage3.
* stage2 now knows as a comptime boolean whether it is being compiled
as part of stage1 or as stage2.
- TODO use this flag to call into stage1 for compiling zig code.
* introduce -fdll-export-fns and -fno-dll-export-fns and clarify
its relationship to link_mode (static/dynamic)
* implement depending on LLVM to detect native target cpu features when
LLVM extensions are enabled and zig lacks CPU feature detection for
that target architecture.
* C importing is broken, will need some stage2 support to function
again.
Alex Rønne Petersen