zupper/README.md

# zupper

A Zig version manager, written in zig.

## features

- managing multiple zig installations
  - installing zig
  - switching zig installations
  - removing installations
  - automatic updates
- fancy CLI
- concurrent downloading and unpacking
- multi-platform support (actually, not sure about windows xD)
- tiny binary (211 KB)
- few native dependencies
- written in zig

## building

### Linux

Zupper requires `libarchive` to be installed.
libarchive is used to unpack the compiler toolchain.
This dependency will probably be swapped out for zig a version at some point once a suitable library pops up.

1. Install the dependencies.

You probably already have them installed, but just to make sure, here are the commands to install them.

Arch:

```bash
pacman -S --needed \
    libarchive
```

Debian:

```bash
apt install \
    libarchive-dev
```

2. Install the zig toolchain

Zupper requires the 0.12.0 version of Zig. You can get a compiler from the
[Zig website](https://ziglang.org), or your distribution's package manager.

3. Build it!

```bash
zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast -p ~/.local
```

### macOS

I'll be honest here, I got no idea.

You should be able to do it in a similar fashion to Linux.

### windows

It might work if you can get the dependencies working. Maybe, I'll add static linking some day.

As for now, good luck lol.