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-rw-r--r--build.rs15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
index b7a6a005..7a2ac11f 100644
--- a/build.rs
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ fn main() {
.to_string();
let zig = env::var("ZIG").unwrap_or_else(|_| "zig".into());
- let mut command = Command::new(zig);
+ let mut command = Command::new(&zig);
command
.arg("build")
.arg("-Demit-lib-vt")
@@ -77,7 +77,18 @@ fn main() {
let status = command
.current_dir(&vendored_dir)
.status()
- .expect("failed to execute zig build for vendored libghostty-vt");
+ .unwrap_or_else(|err| {
+ if err.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound {
+ panic!(
+ "zig executable not found (looked for {zig:?}; set the ZIG \
+ environment variable to point at the zig binary). Building \
+ the vendored libghostty-vt requires Zig 0.15.2: on macOS run \
+ `brew install zig@0.15`, elsewhere install it from \
+ https://ziglang.org/download/, then retry the build"
+ );
+ }
+ panic!("failed to execute zig build for vendored libghostty-vt: {err}");
+ });
assert!(
status.success(),
"zig build for vendored libghostty-vt failed: {status}"