Stupid question - zig-cache zig-out zig-pkg

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Is it possible to move these to a new location? I want them to all go into repo/.zig or repo/tmp/zig or something to simplify my gitignore…

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zig-out can be changed with the --prefix, -p flag. (since the default structure mimics most systems you can use this to install software!)
there are also more specific --prefix-lib-dir, --prefix-exe-dir and --prefix-include-dir

.zig-cache can be changed with --cache-dir, also --global-cache-dir if you ever want to change that.

Unfortunately it does not seem like you can change zig-pkg yet.

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someone beat me to making a pr https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/31950

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Ah, excellent. Thanks vulpesx, your responses here are really appreciated…

I am messing with these justfile rules in case anyone is curious:

build: (_zig "-Doptimize=Debug")
build-release: (_zig "-Doptimize=ReleaseSmall")
build-windows: (_zig "-Dtarget=x86_64-windows-gnu")
...

test: (_zig "test --summary all")

# REMIND: add --pkg-dir when possible
_zig +ARGS:
  zig build -p tmp/zig-out --cache-dir tmp/zig-cache {{ARGS}}