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`std.GeneralPurposeAllocator` is now available. It is a function that takes a configuration struct (with default field values) and returns an allocator. There is a detailed description of this allocator in the doc comments at the top of the new file. The main feature of this allocator is that it is *safe*. It prevents double-free, use-after-free, and detects leaks. Some deprecation compile errors are removed. The Allocator interface gains `old_align` as a new parameter to `resizeFn`. This is useful to quickly look up allocations. `std.heap.page_allocator` is improved to use mmap address hints to avoid obtaining the same virtual address pages when unmapping and mapping pages. The new general purpose allocator uses the page allocator as its backing allocator by default. `std.testing.allocator` is replaced with usage of this new allocator, which does leak checking, and so the LeakCheckAllocator is retired. stage1 is improved so that the `@typeInfo` of a pointer has a lazy value for the alignment of the child type, to avoid false dependency loops when dealing with pointers to async function frames. The `std.mem.Allocator` interface is refactored to be in its own file. `std.Mutex` now exposes the dummy mutex with `std.Mutex.Dummy`. This allocator is great for debug mode, however it needs some work to have better performance in release modes. The next step will be setting up a series of tests in ziglang/gotta-go-fast and then making improvements to the implementation.
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Building from Source
Note that you can download a binary of master branch.
Stage 1: Build Zig from C++ Source Code
Dependencies
POSIX
- cmake >= 2.8.5
- gcc >= 5.0.0 or clang >= 3.6.0
- LLVM, Clang, LLD development libraries == 10.x, compiled with the same gcc or clang version above
- Use the system package manager, or build from source.
Windows
- cmake >= 3.15.3
- Microsoft Visual Studio. Supported versions:
- 2015 (version 14)
- 2017 (version 15.8)
- 2019 (version 16)
- LLVM, Clang, LLD development libraries == 10.x
- Use the pre-built binaries or build from source.
Instructions
POSIX
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make install
Need help? Troubleshooting Build Issues
MacOS
brew install cmake llvm
brew outdated llvm || brew upgrade llvm
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$(brew --prefix llvm)
make install
You will now run into this issue:
homebrew and llvm 10 packages in apt.llvm.org are broken with undefined reference to getPollyPluginInfo
or
error: unable to create target: 'Unable to find target for this triple (no targets are registered)',
in which case try -DZIG_WORKAROUND_4799=ON
Hopefully this will be fixed upstream with LLVM 10.0.1.
Windows
See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Building-Zig-on-Windows