Zig does not always share `libc++.a` and the glibc shims. We have observed
to be caused for 2 reasons:
- For some commands Go `chdir`s to `/tmp/`. This causes `ZIG_LIB_DIR` to be
absolute, which blows the cache key to find the right `libc++.a` (because Zig
thinks we are using a different lib dir to compile libc++). This is currently
worked around in `toolchain/defs.bzl` by overfitting to Go and returning
early from that particular invocation.
- Sometimes Bazel's sandbox messes up Zig's cache keys. If one runs without the
sandbox (`--spawn_strategy=standalone`), the cache hit rate and thus the
build time are much better.
This is actively investigated. I am adding `--spawn_strategy=standalone`
to CI to see the speedup that it provides. I will rollback it later.
Go ignores CFLAGS for some commands. That causes unnecessary build of
glibc shims (and libc++.a).
In the GCC days cross-compiler toolchains used to expose a "tool" per
architecture. Let's do the same here. Then Go cannot cheat with skipping
CFLAGS which we normally *always* expect.
The wrapper code is getting gnarly, I know. But it still fits in my head
somehow, so we can still keep adding to it.
'common' is not a thing in Windows; but it needs to be defined.
This makes v1.0.0-rc3 broken for Windows, and not useful (yet) for
anyone else but me. Revert the README update too.
Empirically these need to come from most specfic to least specific.
The error message is as follows:
In file included from test/c/main.c:1:
In file included from external/zig_sdk/lib/libcxx/include/stdio.h:107:
In file included from external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/generic-glibc/stdio.h:38:
external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/generic-glibc/bits/types.h:139:3: error:
# error
^
external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/generic-glibc/bits/types.h:145:1: error: unknown type name '__STD_TYPE'
__STD_TYPE __DEV_T_TYPE __dev_t; /* Type of device numbers. */
Dissected `generic-glibc/bits/types.h:#error`:
#if __WORDSIZE == 32
<...>
# define __STD_TYPE __extension__ typedef
#elif __WORDSIZE == 64
<...>
# define __STD_TYPE typedef
#else
# error
#endif
So we do not have the `__WORDSIZE`. Where does that come from? Probably from a
directory that has an `x86_64` in it. How does that get included? Let's start
with `lib/libcxx/include/stdio.h`:
16 #include_next <stdio.h>
Now previously our `c++` command line looked like this:
external/zig_sdk/tools/c++ \
<...>
-Iexternal/zig_sdk/lib/include \
-Iexternal/zig_sdk/lib/libcxx/include \
-Iexternal/zig_sdk/lib/libcxxabi/include \
-Iexternal/zig_sdk/lib/libunwind/include \
-Iexternal/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/generic-glibc \
-Iexternal/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/any-linux-any \
-Iexternal/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-linux-gnu \
-Iexternal/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-linux-any \
-Iexternal/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86-linux-any \
-Iexternal/zig_sdk/glibc-hacks \
<...>
So the next place it will find `stdio.h` is in `generic-glibc`, which already
uses the `__WORDSIZE`. If we make the "next" include to be the arch-specific
one instead of the generic-glibc, things start compiling again.
Fix the same fo musl.
These flags were added in this commit:
commit 58a04fbfec
Author: Motiejus Jakštys <motiejus@jakstys.lt>
Date: Tue Jun 15 09:10:15 2021 +0300
bump zig
I am still quite puzzled on why I did this and in such a commit: it
bumps the zig version and changes the linker flag.
Working alone, experimentation time? Probably something like this.
Anyhow, this is a good example of the real value of code reviews.
The user may want to build with `--sandbox_tmpfs_path=/tmp`, in which
case the Zig cache will not be shared between sandboxes, massively
slowing down the build. With this feature, the user can pass flags
like `--repo_env=BAZEL_ZIG_CC_CACHE_PREFIX=$HOME/.cache/bazel-zig-cc`
together with `--sandbox_writable_path=$HOME/.cache/bazel-zig-cc` to
put the cache somewhere else which can be shared between sandboxes.
While integrating the project into our Bazel workspace, we had some
problems while building protoc in an Intel MacBook.
From my testing, the issue seems to be caused by missing include path
in the toolchain configuration to the `-none` variant of the headers.
More details below.
The issue can be reproduced directly inside `bazel-zig-cc` by including
the protobuf workspace as a dependency:
+http_archive(
+ name = "com_google_protobuf",
+ sha256 = "2d9084d3dd13b86ca2e811d2331f780eb86f6d7cb02b405426e3c80dcbfabf25",
+ strip_prefix = "protobuf-3.21.1",
+ url = "https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/archive/v3.21.1.zip",
+)
+
+load("@com_google_protobuf//:protobuf_deps.bzl", "protobuf_deps")
+
+protobuf_deps()
And then executing:
bazel build --platforms @zig_sdk//platform:darwin_amd64 @com_google_protobuf//:protoc
The command fails with the same error both in native compilation and
cross-compiling from Linux. The error:
ERROR: <output_base>/external/zlib/BUILD.bazel:37:11: Compiling compress.c failed: undeclared inclusion(s) in rule '@zlib//:zlib':
this rule is missing dependency declarations for the following files included by 'compress.c':
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/cdefs.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/_symbol_aliasing.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/machine/limits.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/i386/limits.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/i386/_limits.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/syslimits.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/machine/types.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/i386/types.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/i386/_types.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/_types/_int8_t.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/_types/_uintptr_t.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/machine/_types.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/_pthread/_pthread_types.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/machine/endian.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/i386/endian.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/libkern/_OSByteOrder.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/libkern/i386/_OSByteOrder.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/_types/_fd_def.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/Availability.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/AvailabilityInternal.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/_pthread/_pthread_attr_t.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/_pthread/_pthread_cond_t.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/_pthread/_pthread_condattr_t.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/_pthread/_pthread_rwlock_t.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/_pthread/_pthread_rwlockattr_t.h'
'<output_base>/external/zig_sdk/lib/libc/include/x86_64-macos.10-none/sys/_pthread/_pthread_t.h'
Target @com_google_protobuf//:protoc failed to build
(<output_base> replaced manually to keep the description sane)
Note that the specific rule included in the error message will vary due
to parallelism, but the error is always the same and the missing paths
always have the same prefix (up to `x86_64-macos.10-none`).
After applying the patch, we confirmed that both native and cross compilations
works as expected and can properly build protoc.
Signed-off-by: Luis Holanda <luiscmholanda@gmail.com>
As it expects Bash to be at `/bin/bash`, the current implementation
fails to execute on NixOS, given that there bash is in a non-standard
path (i.g. `/nix/store/<hash>-bash-interactive-<version>/bin/bash`).
This patch specifically changes `/bin/bash` paths to use `/usr/bin/env bash`,
which should give the correct path in every Unix system.
Signed-off-by: Luis Holanda <luiscmholanda@gmail.com>
This is very cache-unfriendly, because quite a lot of work is done
during the final linking stage. Let's see how this improves performance
of fastbuild.
Bazel has a special command line option (--compilation_mode) for specifying how
c artifacts should be compiled. Copy over the implementation without too much
thought on whether they make sense.
See https://docs.bazel.build/versions/main/user-manual.html#flag--compilation_mode.
!!! Due to a regression in zig-cc, debug symbols are available under --compilation_mode opt
```
laurynasl@laurynasl ~/bazel-zig-cc
% bazel build -c opt //test/c:which_libc 2>/dev/null && bazel-bin/test/c/which_libc && gdb -batch --ex 'info line main' bazel-bin/test/c/which_libc
glibc_2.19
Line 4 of "test/c/main.c" starts at address 0x2014f0 <main> and ends at 0x2014f1 <main+1>.
laurynasl@laurynasl ~/bazel-zig-cc
% bazel build -c dbg //test/c:which_libc 2>/dev/null && bazel-bin/test/c/which_libc && gdb -batch --ex 'info line main' bazel-bin/test/c/which_libc
glibc_2.19
Line 4 of "test/c/main.c" starts at address 0x201500 <main> and ends at 0x201504 <main+4>.
laurynasl@laurynasl ~/bazel-zig-cc
% bazel build -c fastbuild //test/c:which_libc 2>/dev/null && bazel-bin/test/c/which_libc && gdb -batch --ex 'info line main' bazel-bin/test/c/which_libc
glibc_2.19
Function "main" not defined.
```
This linker flag causes undefined symbols to be ignored, which is the
default behavior on linux but not macos. This is required when building
shared libraries to use as e.g. Python modules. This also matches what
Bazel's built-in macos cc toolchain does.
Now that the toolchain supports multiple mirrors, we can have more
robust defaults: try ziglang.org first, then dl.jakstys.lt when that one
removes the build we rely on.
This will make builds less prone to inevitable failures of my home
server.
