Building zig from source code using zig-bootstrap'ed zig

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@lalinsky

I’d like to do some changes to the standard library.

You don’t need to build Zig from source if you just want to change the standard library, you can directly edit the standard library.

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I haven’t tried zig-bootstrap, but last time I built Zig I used this and it worked well (just took a long time on my slow laptop):

Building Zig from source for dummies?

Some copy-pastable commands for @matklad from the future: I want to hack on the standard library git clone https://github.com/ziglang/zig && cd zig curl -L $(curl -L https://ziglang.org/download/index.json | jq -r ".master.\"x86_64-linux\".tarball") > zig.tar.xz mkdir stage3 && tar xf zig.tar.xz -C stage3 --strip-components 1 ./stage3/zig version ./stage3/zig test lib/std/std.zig --zig-lib-dir lib I want to hack on the compiler itself First, check what LLVM is it. Then, git clone https://…

I guess you would have to update the llvm version numbers.