build system #

notes on zig's build system, drawn from studying ghostty (terminal emulator) and bun (javascript runtime). both are large, production zig projects with sophisticated builds.

notes #

• organization - structuring build.zig for large projects
• dependencies - vendored vs system libs, lazy deps, pinning
• codegen - generating zig source at build time
• cross-compilation - targeting multiple platforms
• distribution - cross-compile matrix in a release step, static-linking facts, strip for size, and why static hosts need .tar.gz (they 404 extensionless binaries)