zigd :D ~ Manage your zigd versions on ease!

Usage:

There are 2 executables, zigdemu and zigd

zigd

zigd is an executable to manage versions or other zigd related stuff, by the default zigd files are managed in $HOME/.zigd, you can replace that with the ZIGD_DIRECTORY environment variable.

Commands:

Command	What does it do?
install [version]	Installs a zig version
setup [version]	Installs a zig version and sets it as default in the config.
exists [version]	Check if a zig version is installed on the system
recache-master	Re-cache the master version
help	Help screen
version	Outputs zigd version

zigdemu

zigdemu is an executable to "emulate" the zig executable, what it really does it just finds the correct zig version installed with zigd and executes it.

So just replace zig with zigdemu, zig build => zigdemu build

How the zigdemu executable finds the correct version:

sorted by Precedence

• .zigversion: A file that contains the zig version, nothing more.
• build.zig.zon: More specifically the minimum_zig_version option
• (zigd directory)/config

In the config there is also an order

• (path): A version for a specific path, it is search recursively (so if you set /x=0.11.0, /x/d will also use 0.11.0)
• default: It is used as a last resort, pretty much self explainable

Config Syntax

As mentioned previously the config file is located at (zigd directory)/config

You can use # at the start for comments (Works only if it's at the start, won't be checked if it has even one space before)

And the syntax is just k=v, where k is default or a path and v is a zig version, here is an example:

_{~/.zigd/config}

default=0.13.0
# My company still uses the old Zig Version >:(
/home/john/work/some_project=0.5.0

Fun fact, if you are in /home/john/work/some_project/some_deeper_project, it will still return 0.5.0, because zigd searches for paths recursively! :O

Install

You must have wget and curl installed :D

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trnxdev/zigd/main/install.sh | bash

Build

zig build

Important Stuff to know

master version is cached for 12 hours at (zigd directory)/cached_master, you can use zigd recache-master to update it.

An Example Usage

[john@coolpc test]$ cat ~/.zigd/config 
default=0.12.0
[john@coolpc test]$ zigdemu version
warning: Zigd could not find zig version "0.12.0" on your system, installing...
0.12.0
[john@coolpc test]$ # Change the Version (in any editor of your choice)
[john@coolpc test]$ cat ~/.zigd/config 
default=0.13.0
[john@coolpc test]$ zigdemu version
warning: Zigd could not find zig version "0.13.0" on your system, installing...
0.13.0
[john@coolpc test]$ # Create a .zigversion file with a version you need
[john@coolpc test]$ cat .zigversion
0.12.0
[john@coolpc test]$ zigdemu version
0.12.0
[john@coolpc test]$ # Use zigd utility for more stuff!
[john@coolpc test]$ zigd exists 0.12.0
Yes!
[john@coolpc test]$ zigd exists 0.11.0
No!
[john@coolpc test]$ zigd install 0.11.0
Installing zig version "0.11.0"
[john@coolpc test]$ zigd exists 0.11.0
Yes!
[john@coolpc test]$ # Change the .zigversion file again...
[john@coolpc test]$ cat .zigversion
0.11.0
[john@coolpc test]$ zigdemu version
0.11.0
[john@coolpc test]$ # Change the version to be master in .zigversion
[john@coolpc test]$ cat .zigversion
master
[trnx@trnxbox zigd]$ zigdemu version
warning: Zigd could not find zig version "master" (0.14.0-dev.14+ec337051a) on your system, installing...
0.14.0-dev.14+ec337051a
[trnx@trnxbox zigd]$ # Wow! This is epic!

_{0.14.0-dev.14+ec337051a is the master as of making the README}