Nix-shell starter config for Zig contributing

[usebeforefree]

I started contributing to Zig lately, and I often struggle to get my development evironment to work. Does it make sense we provide a shell.nix for starters? This way new contributors wouldn’t have to waste energy on collecting a miillion LLVM packages, figuring out what is needed and what is not.

I’ll provide my config in a bit, but I encourage more experienced folks to pitch in, I am not really a nix guy xD

[usebeforefree]

Okay after a bit more of research I found the following:

Building Zig from source for dummies?

I have a recurring problem: every once in a while, I want to contribute to Zig, but then end up spending most of my attention quant just trying to get a version of compiler that can compile master Zig. I am looking for a magic command that makes the following work: $ git clone https://github.com/ziglang/zig && cd zig $ <magic-command-for-dummies> $ stage4/bin/zig build test -Denable-llvm I don’t care if <magic-command-for-dummies> takes three hours, I am fine leaving that running in the backg…

GitHub - mitchellh/zig-overlay: Nix flake for the Zig compiler.

Development with nix

I will update on what I have settled for, once I make some of these solutons work.