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 and libcurl to be installed. libarchive is used to unpack the compiler toolchain and libcurl for downloading it. These 2 dependencies will probably be swapped out for zig versions 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:

pacman -S --needed \
    curl \
    libarchive

Debian:

# you don't need to use the openssl version of libcurl
apt install \
    libcurl4-openssl-dev \
    libarchive-dev

2. Install gyro

Gyro is a zig package manager. It is used by zupper to manage dependencies.

3. Build it!

gyro build -Drelease-fast -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.