The major idea behind the refactor is to split the `build.zig` file up into
distinct `src/build/*.zig` files. By doing so, we can improve readability of
the primary `build.zig` while also enabling better reuse of steps. Our
`build.zig` is now less than 150 lines of code (of course, it calls into a lot
more lines but they're neatly organized now).
Improvements:
* `build.zig` is less than 150 lines of readable code.
* Help strings and unicode table generators are only run once when multiple
artifacts are built since the results are the same regardless of target.
* Metal lib is only built once per architecture (rather than once per artifact)
* Resources (shell integration, terminfo, etc.) and docs are only
built/installed for artifacts that need them
Breaking changes:
* Removed broken wasm build (@gabydd will re-add)
* Removed conformance files, shell scripts are better and we don't run
these anymore
* Removed macOS app bundle creation, we don't use this anymore since we
use Xcode
## Some History
Our `build.zig` hasn't been significantly refactored since the project started,
when Zig was _version 0.10_. Since then, the build system has changed
significantly. We've only ever duct taped the `build.zig` as we needed to
support new Zig versions, new features, etc. It was a mess.
The major improvement is adapting the entire Ghostty `build.zig` to the Step
and LazyPath changes introduced way back in Zig 0.12. This lets us better take
advantage of parallelism and the dependency graph so that steps are only
executed as they're needed.
As such, you can see in the build.zig that we initialize a lot of things, but
unless a final target (i.e. install, run) references those steps, _they'll
never be executed_. This lets us clean up a lot.
Introduces static path methods and a reworked context API that makes
things generally cleaner.
This update incidentally fixed a bug we had before where the corner
triangle shade characters were drawn solid rather than medium shade.
nix vim module expects vim plugins to have their code organized as top level
directories. eg: /ftdetect rather than /share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect. Adding
a separate output seems like a convenient way to reference the plugin
files in `programs.vim.plugins ...`. Interestingly nvim will find the
plugin via nested directories making ghostty.vim and ghostty the same
for `programs.neovim.plugins`
This fixes a hack we had around apple paths since we do this now
upstream in zig-objc. This also adds in support for NSFastEnumeration
needed for #2586
More complete coverage of the Symbols For Legacy Computing block,
including characters from Unicode 16.0.
Pixman and the web canvas impl for Canvas have been removed in favor of
z2d for drawing, since it has a nicer API with more powerful methods,
and is in Zig with no specific platform optimizations so should compile
to wasm no problem.
Because Zig does not fetch recursive dependencies when you run `zig build
--fetch` (see https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/20976) we need to do some
extra work to fetch everything that we actually need to build without Internet
access (such as when building a Nix package).
An example of this happening:
```
error: builder for '/nix/store/cx8qcwrhjmjxik2547fw99v5j6np5san-ghostty-0.1.0.drv' failed with exit code 1;
la/build/tmp.xgHOheUF7V/p/12208cfdda4d5fdbc81b0c44b82e4d6dba2d4a86bff644a153e026fdfc80f8469133/build.zig.zon:7:20: error: unable to discover remote git server capabilities: TemporaryNameServerFailure
> .url = "git+https://github.com/zigimg/zigimg#3a667bdb3d7f0955a5a51c8468eac83210c1439e",
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> /build/tmp.xgHOheUF7V/p/12208cfdda4d5fdbc81b0c44b82e4d6dba2d4a86bff644a153e026fdfc80f8469133/build.zig.zon:16:20: error: unable to discover remote git server capabilities: TemporaryNameServerFailure
> .url = "git+https://github.com/mitchellh/libxev#f6a672a78436d8efee1aa847a43a900ad773618b",
> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
For full logs, run 'nix log /nix/store/cx8qcwrhjmjxik2547fw99v5j6np5san-ghostty-0.1.0.drv'.
```
To update this script, add any failing URLs with a line like this:
```
zig fetch <url>
```
Periodically old URLs may need to be cleaned out.
Hopefully when the Zig issue is fixed this script can be eliminated in favor
of a plain `zig build --fetch`.
This adds a "fancy" theme preview to the `+list-themes` CLI action.
By default, if the command is connected to a TTY, it will display the
fancy preview. If it is not connected to a TTY, or the user specifies
`--plain` on the command line, a simple list of themes will be printed
to stdout.
While in the preview `F1` or `?` will show a help screen.
Fixes#2171
ZLS has caused us issues in our Nix shell before and I noted when we
first added it that we probably shouldn't. We now pin to release
versions of Zig so I think its reasonable to expect developers to have
ZLS installed themselves with the proper version or not use it at all.
