Building examples on windows

[anaanook]

I'm sure I'm just doing something wrong in the set up but something is going wrong when its pulling in the raylib module and compiling it. Here's an excerpt:

This is from just cloning the repo and following the 'getting started' steps to build the examples

attempting to fetch submodule(s)...
error(compilation): clang failed with stderr: In file included from C:\TSHEngine\Zig\raylib-zig\raylib\src\rglfw.c:54:
In file included from C:\folder\raylib-zig\raylib\src/external/glfw/src/context.c:30:
In file included from C:\folder\raylib-zig\raylib\src/external/glfw/src/internal.h:186:
In file included from C:\folder\raylib-zig\raylib\src/external/glfw/src/win32_platform.h:70:
C:\folder\raylib-zig\raylib\src\external\glfw\deps\mingw\xinput.h:227:26: error: a parameter list without types is only allowed in a function definition
In file included from C:\folder\raylib-zig\raylib\src\rglfw.c:54:
C:\folder\raylib-zig\raylib\src/external/glfw/src/context.c:407:10: warning: 'sscanf' is deprecated: This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using sscanf_s instead. To disable deprecation, use _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS. See online help for details. [-Wdeprecated-declarations]

[anaanook]

Just for the record, I am able to get things working by manually building and linking raylib, but it would seem that something isn't quite functioning with the automated build.

[Not-Nik]

I don't have a Windows system to test and debug this, but from what I can see this seems to be a zig cc error. Can you try creating a zig build script only for GLFW? If the issue persists when only building that, please create an issue over in the zig repo.

[anaanook]

Hey I've got an update here.. so as it turns out the reason its not working is that the default target on windows is set to "-target native-native-msvc". If you set the target to "-target native-native-gnu" it builds just fine. Here's what I added to the build file, I'm still pretty green with this stuff... so forgive me if there's a better way of setting this up:

pub fn build(b: *Builder) void {
    const mode = b.standardReleaseOptions();
    const target = b.standardTargetOptions(.{.default_target = .{ .abi=.gnu}});

and then down in the examples

    for (examples) |ex| {
        const exe = b.addExecutable(ex.name, ex.path);
        exe.setBuildMode(mode);
        exe.setTarget(target);

I got the idea from this suggestion: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/6565 , apparently this default target causes other issues too.

[andrewrk]

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/6565 is solved now; the workaround will not be necessary in the upcoming 0.8.0 release.