01:08 <MajorLag> andrewrk, is there somewhere to get the latest zig binary for linux? I don't need any packaging, just the binary is fine since it looks like Zig is pretty trivial to package as an AppDir.

19:45 <andrewrk> MajorLag2, no, that doesn't exist anywhere yet

19:46 <andrewrk> here's a related issue: https://github.com/zig-lang/zig/issues/626

19:53 <MajorLag> andrewrk, so travis ci creates a complete binary, but it isn't made available anywhere like the apveyor artifact is for Windows? According to the AppImage people, a lot of projects have scripts to produce AppImages from travis ci builds. From what I can tell this should be trivial for Zig, since the binary has so few runtime dependencies. I already made an AppDir of an older version using a binary ripped from the D

19:53 <MajorLag> ack at it but I don't know anything about travis ci.

19:54 <andrewrk> I'm looking up what AppImage is

19:54 <cgag> i'm gettiing `lld: error: cannot open /home/cgag/src/zig/libstdc++.a: No such file or directory` while trying to run `./zig build --build-file ../build.zig test` from the zig build directory as per the readme

19:55 <cgag> not really sure wy it's looking there? i don't see any libstdc++ in any zig subdir, though i do have it in /usr/lib64

19:55 <andrewrk> cgag, can I see more output?

19:55 <MajorLag> Sounds like the LIB_DIR path isn't set right.

19:56 <cgag> http://lpaste.net/4338007665784389632

20:01 <andrewrk> cgag, what linux distro is this?

20:02 <cgag> fedora 27, llvm and clang 6 build from source, no llvm or clang packages installed

20:03 <andrewrk> MajorLag, I just had a look at AppImage. the example from their home page does not work on NixOS, my linux distro. Even when I fixed the path to the dynamic linker, it expected a library to be installed that was not installed. I'm not convinced AppImage is the best solution to this problem

20:03 <andrewrk> I'd be more interested in trying to produce a static build of zig

20:04 <MajorLag> That's a bit surprising, but I know they've had issues with Nix before. I agree about the static build though.

20:05 <andrewrk> cgag, what does this output for you: cc -print-file-name=libstdc++.a

20:05 <cgag> just `libstdc++.a`

20:06 <andrewrk> ok, what's going on here is that the build script tried the above command to figure out where libstdc++.a is on your system, and it didn't work. and then instead of reporting that error, it tried to use the wrong path

20:06 <andrewrk> I'll fix the second part to make the problem clearer, and meanwhile we can try to figure out a better way to determine where that file is on your system

20:07 <andrewrk> does it work if you replace `cc` with `c++` ?

20:10 <cgag> ah, makes sense. same output from `c++`

20:10 <cgag> gcc 7.3.1

20:18 <andrewrk> cgag, I reproduced the problem on a VPS. I can see that the file is at /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/7/32/libstdc++.a even though -print-file-name does not find it

20:27 <cgag> i also see it just at /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

20:33 <andrewrk> cgag, can you try the fedora-build branch and see if that solves the issue for you?

20:38 <cgag> `Unable to find zig lib directory. Reinstall Zig or use --zig-install-prefix.`

20:38 <andrewrk> did you remember to make install?

20:39 <cgag> no :\

20:39 <cgag> `lld: error: cannot open /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/7/32/libstdc++.a: No such file or directory`

20:40 <andrewrk> that file does not exist for you?

20:40 <cgag> it appears to be a symlink to /usr/lib/libstdc++.a

20:41 <cgag> actually, one minute

20:42 <cgag> it looks like it's a broken symlink to /usr/lib/gcc/i686-redhat-linux/7/libstdc++.a, and that i686 folder doesn't exist

20:44 <andrewrk> is there a valid libstdc++.a file anywhere on your system?

20:44 <cgag> just searched and can't find one, only see .so

20:48 <andrewrk> cgag, what does this do? https://clbin.com/dA2W3

20:57 <andrewrk> cgag, can you also try `yum install libstdc++-static` with master branch?

21:17 <andrewrk> cgag, here's an issue to track self hosted compiler build on fedora: https://github.com/zig-lang/zig/issues/843

21:44 <MajorLag> even the nix package isn't up to date...

21:47 <cgag> awesome, looks like libstdc++-static fixed it, thanks a bunch

22:17 <andrewrk> cgag, thanks for the report. I'll update the build script to inform fedora users of this

22:18 <andrewrk> MajorLag, of zig?

22:19 <MajorLag> yeah