Summary

explore using zig as a c-compiler alternative

Metadata

• Id: d77c5c589ae67fdb6cd1a820fbd74b28b22523df
• Trac id: 1817
• Type: enhancement
• Reporter: felix
• Owner:
• Cc:
• Status: closed
• Component: unknown
• Estimated difficulty: medium
• Resolution: fixed
• Priority: not urgent at all
• Milestone: 6.0.0
• Version: 5.3.0
• Changetime: 2023-11-23 17:29:12 UTC
• Created: 2023-03-10 11:28:34 UTC
• Keywords:

Description

It seems to be possible to build chicken using zig-cc, as experiments by siiky have shown. This would also be a particularly nice option for Windows without the need to work with the mingw mess.

Changes and comments

[2023-11-23 17:29:12 UTC] felix changed status from new to closed

[2023-11-23 17:29:12 UTC] felix set resolution to fixed

[2023-11-23 17:29:12 UTC] felix changed milestone from someday to 6.0.0

[2023-11-23 17:29:12 UTC] felix wrote:

Support added for C6