This commit represents the majority of the work necessary to upgrade
Ghostty to use Zig 0.16.0.
Key parts:
* In addition to its previous responsibilities, the global state now
houses state for global I/O implementations and the process
environment. It is now also utilized in the main application along
with the C library. Where necessary, global state is isolated from key
parts of the implementation (e.g., in libghostty subsystems), and it's
expected that this list will grow.
* We currently manage our own C translation layer where necessary. In
these cases, cImport has been removed in favor of the new external
translate-c package. Due to fixes that have needed be made to properly
translate the dependencies that were swapped out, as mentioned, we
have had to backport fixes from the current translate-c package (and
the upstream Arocc dependency). We will host this ourselves until Zig
0.17.0 is released with these fixes.
* Where necessary (only a small number of cases), some stdlib code from
0.15.2 (and even from 0.17.0) has been taken, adopted, and vendored in
lib/compat.
Co-authored-by: Leah Amelia Chen <hi@pluie.me>
Currently, cross to Darwin uses the Darwin headers bundled with Zig.
However, if you're running a build _on_ Darwin, an error is thrown if
the SDK can't be found, even though the bundled headers are still
available.
Now, we continue to search for and prefer the installed SDK, but if it
can't be found, we fall back to the bundled headers rather than failing
the build.
This allows libghostty-vt to be cross-compiled for macOS from non-macOS
platforms. I've updated pkg/apple-sdk to fallback to Zig's embedded
macOS headers if the macOS SDK is not found.
Additionally, CombineArchivesStep has been updated to use Linux
tooling on Linux.
This fixes an issue where Ghostty would not build against the macOS 15.5 SDK.
What was happening was that Zig was adding its embedded libc paths to
the clang command line, which included old headers that were
incompatible with the latest (macOS 15.5) SDK. Ghostty was adding the
newer paths but they were being overridden by the embedded libc paths.
The reason this was happening is because Zig was using its own logic to
find the libc paths and this was colliding with the paths we were
setting manually. To fix this, we now use a `libc.txt` file that
explicitly tells Zig where to find libc, and we base this on our own SDK
search logic.
This gets `zig build -Dtarget=aarch64-ios` working. By "working" I mean
it produces an object file without compiler errors. However, the object
file certainly isn't useful since it uses a number of features that will
not work in the iOS sandbox.
This is just an experiment more than anything to see how hard it would be to
get libghostty working within iOS to render a terminal. Note iOS doesn't
support ptys so this wouldn't be a true on-device terminal. The
challenge right now is to just get a terminal rendering (not usable).
