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Bootstrapping Zig with no Binary Blobs

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To: Hilton Chain <hako <at> ultrarare.space>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74217: closed (Bootstrapping Zig with no Binary Blobs)
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:41:02 +0000

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From: Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz <at> elenq.tech>
To: "bug-guix <at> gnu.org" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Hilton Chain <hako <at> ultrarare.space>,
 "efraim <at> flashner.co.il" <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Subject: Bootstrapping Zig with no Binary Blobs
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 22:47:48 +0100

Hi,

In order to include modern versions of Zig (Zig 0.12+) in Guix, we need 
to remove the binary blobs.

I open this issue to track this effort and store information about the 
process.

Some Guix user is trying to achieve the same goal:

https://git.jakstys.lt/motiejus/zig-repro

And discussing about it here:

https://ziggit.dev/t/building-self-hosted-from-the-original-c-implementation/6607/11

We could use that effort as a reference and package it to Guix.

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From: Hilton Chain <hako <at> ultrarare.space>
To: 74217-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Motiejus Jakštys
 <motiejus <at> jakstys.lt>, Noé Lopez <noe <at> xn--no-cja.eu>,
 dan <i <at> dan.games>, Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>,
 Ekaitz Zarraga <ekaitz <at> elenq.tech>
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping Zig with no Binary Blobs
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:49:54 +0800

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:08:09 +0800,
Hilton Chain wrote:
>
> I think this is mostly ready ( again :) ).  If there's nothing else missing,
> I'll post the current status and call for packages to test the build system on
> guix-devel.

Applied Zig bootstrap as 40b9f33066...42e32d52c3.

I'll delete wip-zig-bootstrap, move Zig libraries left there (currently unused
by other packages) to zig-team branch and continue the bootstrap chain on
zig-next branch.

Manifest for all Zig packages is available at "etc/teams/zig/zig-manifest.scm".

BTW I just realised that on reusing procedures from Guix, `guix repl' is more
convenient than `guile -c' in terms of load paths:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
echo "((assoc-ref (@ (guix build zig-build-system) %standard-phases) 'unpack-dependencies))" | guix repl -t machine
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Builds on ci.guix.gnu.org is a bit slower than my estimation, but hopefully
we'll have x86_64-linux substitutes on 2025-01-01. :)

Closing.

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