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>
This patch continues the work to support NixOS and others non-FHS
distributions by replacing instances of `/bin/bash` with
`/usr/bin/env bash`, which works correctly in more systems than the
former.
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.
```
