Building Ring with Zig

[Mario H. Sabado]

HI Mahmoud,

I tried building Ring with Zig 0.16dev and got the following message.  Any hint what I may have missed?  

Thanks,

Mario

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C:\ring\language\build>buildzig

C:\ring\language\build>rem Building Ring Compiler/VM using Zig

C:\ring\language\build>rem Tested using zig-windows-x86_64-0.12.0-dev.3079+a1b083b66

C:\ring\language\build>rem Add Zig to your path, then run this batch file to build ring.exe

C:\ring\language\build>cd ..\src

C:\ring\language\src>zig cc -Ofast ring.c general.c state.c ext.c hashlib.c rhtable.c vmgc.c os_e.c rstring.c rlist.c ritem.c ritems.c scanner.c parser.c stmt.c expr.c codegen.c vm.c vmerror.c vmeval.c vmthread.c vmexpr.c vmvars.c vmlists.c vmfuncs.c ringapi.c vmoop.c  vmtry.c vmstr.c vmjump.c vmrange.c list_e.c meta_e.c vminfo_e.c vmperf.c vmexit.c vmstack.c vmstate.c genlib_e.c math_e.c file_e.c dll_e.c objfile.c -I ..\include -o ..\..\bin\ring.exe -lm
lld-link: error: No such file or directory

C:\ring\language\src>cd ..\build

C:\ring\language\build>

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[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Mario

Thanks for the report :D

This batch file (buildzig.bat) is tested using an older version of Zig 

I confirm that using Zig 0.16 produce the reported problem that you have (lld-link: error: No such file or directory)

Fixed in this commit: Update language/build/buildzig.bat - To work with Zig 0.16dev - Based… · ring-lang/ring@95d31e5

I just changed (-o ../../bin/ring.exe) to (-o ring.exe)

Then used (copy ring.exe ..\..\bin\ring.exe)

Greetings,

Mahmoud

[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Mario

I reported the issue in Zig project and shared the workaround that we did:  Using Zig cc to build the Ring programming language produce (lld-link: error: No such file or directory) · Issue #25165 · ziglang/zig

And the issue is closed after 10 minutes as duplicate with this opened one:  Unable to build Windows DLL with output path being in a subdirectory · Issue #24993 · ziglang/zig

i.e., this issue is reported in 2025.08.25 and not fixed yet.

Greetings,

Mahmoud

On Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 3:51:11 AM UTC+3 mhsa...@gmail.com wrote:

[Mario H. Sabado]

Hi Mahmoud,

ring.exe now builds successfully after your commit.  

Many thanks as always for the support.

Best regards,

Mario

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[Mahmoud Fayed]

Hello Mario

You are welcome :D

Greetings,

Mahmoud