@cImport is moving to the build system in an upcoming version (0.17, I think?). It's inconvenient, but it's unfortunately necessary.
The issue with @cImport is that when and the order the imports occur are almost impossible to define if you have multiple files and libraries. By moving it to the build system, the order now becomes deterministic and you can refer to it properly.
The point here is that these examples need to be updated because @cImport, the syntactic feature of Zig, is being deprecated and removed. That there exists an alternative isn't relevant.
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@cImport is moving to the build system in an upcoming version (0.17, I think?). It's inconvenient, but it's unfortunately necessary.
The issue with @cImport is that when and the order the imports occur are almost impossible to define if you have multiple files and libraries. By moving it to the build system, the order now becomes deterministic and you can refer to it properly.
Stop the misinformation, it’s just changing where it’s being done moving from the language to the build system itself: https://ziggit.dev/t/cimport-going-away/5132
It’s also decoupling Zig compiler and C compiler so they’re updated independently.
It’s still a bummer in my view as I just replaced my build pipelines with just a Zig compiler instead of emscripten but that’s fine.
`@cImport` gets moved from the "mainline" language into a separate module -> this example won't compile on future versions of Zig, that's the point
Deprecated
It's deprecated not removed yet.
I'm a little too lazy to double-check, but either way 0.17.0 is around the corner, where it will totally get nixed
It is being moved not going away.
It is just a wrapper around zig translate-c, moving it to the build system moves the resulting clang dependency to a place where it can be optional.
The functionality is staying, it is just moving.
The point here is that these examples need to be updated because @cImport, the syntactic feature of Zig, is being deprecated and removed. That there exists an alternative isn't relevant.