Hi, Is there an existing zig module or some a zig build file template that adds functionality similar to what cargo watch does? What cargo watch (and other similar tools for other languages) does is it executes (example given “zig build”) a cargo command whenever a file in the project’s source tre…

I’ve used watchexec to run commands on file change. watchexec -e zig zig build

Not yet but that’s an idea that I’ve had in mind for a while now. The good news is that most of the framework is already there; the compiler already speaks a protocol to communicate semantically information to the parent process, and the build runner acts as a multiplexer. The cache system already …

If you are on a reasonably posix system, entr is very simple and does the job.

introduce file system watching features to the zig build system ziglang:master ← ziglang:watch opened 10:32PM - 10 Jul 24 UTC (UTC) [andrewrk] a…

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Initial implementation of `zig build --watch` just landed in master branch News

For those adventurous Zig users out there living on master branch, and who happen to use Linux, give the new --watch flag a try, and see if you like it. Windows and macOS support are close, just needs some OS-specific glue code to make it work. I’m fairly confident the abstractions that I made will hold up nicely when it comes to those file system APIs since it’s based on watching directories only. Contributions welcome! The way I see it, the end goal here is having incremental compilation +…

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