Installing zig

[sharp oar]

Hello! I am trying to install zig so I can check out ziglings.

I'm on a Mac M1. I've downloaded the latest master, unzipped, and set the path to the executable in my .bash_profile. Trying to run zig gives me command not found.

However, using it with the path to the executable works

MacBook-Air:~ me$ /Users/me/Desktop/zig-macos-aarch64-0.12.0-dev.1830+779b8e259/zig version
0.12.0-dev.1830+779b8e259

my .bash_profile looks like this

[[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && source ~/.bashrc # ghcup-env# Set PATH, MANPATH, etc., for Homebrew.
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm@12/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/llvm@12/bin:$PATH"
export PATH=/usr/local/smlnj/bin:"$PATH"
export PATH=/Applications/Racket\ v8.6/bin:"$PATH"
export PATH=$PATH:/Users/me/Desktop/zig-macos-aarch64-0.12.0-dev.1830+779b8e259/zig

Not sure how to debug from this point, any help would be appreciated 🙏

[dire sorrel]

you need to put only the directory in path

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/me/Desktop/zig-macos-aarch64-0.12.0-dev.1830+779b8e259/

[sharp oar]

Thank you!! 🙈

MacBook-Air:~ me$ zig version
0.12.0-dev.1830+779b8e259

[dire sorrel]

welcome :)

[hybrid wedge]

if people are interested, i'm happy to share a little script that ensures I always have the latest version of zig installed?

[hybrid wedge]

@sharp oar here you go! you'll obviously want to change some of the file paths (i keep my zig downloads in $HOME/toolchains/zig). for the latest version of zig, it will simply write out the new folder name to $HOME/.zig which your zshrc or bashrc can read in to export.

[hybrid wedge]

I simply aliased the script to run on zigup and it works like a charm

this is me just running it now

[hybrid wedge]

"Checking for latest docs" -> is just the full zig github repo (builds get test files stripped)
"Checking for ZLS updates..." -> this is the zig lsp. this is also just the repo cloned