Bump to Zig 0.14.0 and use Zig wheels (#192)

Author: agriyakhetarpal

.github/workflows/cd.yml

@@ -93,11 +93,6 @@ jobs:
           cache: false
           check-latest: true
 
-      - uses: mlugg/setup-zig@a67e68dc5c8281d9608136d3d7ca1b282213e4ac # v1.2.1
-        with:
-          version: 0.13.0
-          use-cache: false
-
       - name: Build binary distribution (wheel) on Windows (arm64)
         # We need to use cibuildwheel because it has experimental support for cross-compiling
         # to arm64 and setup-python does not have arm64 support on Windows right now
@@ -138,11 +133,6 @@ jobs:
           go-version: "1.24.0"
           cache: false
 
-      - uses: mlugg/setup-zig@a67e68dc5c8281d9608136d3d7ca1b282213e4ac # v1.2.1
-        with:
-          version: 0.13.0
-          use-cache: false
-
         # Note: cibuildwheel will manage installing 32-bit Python on Windows. We
         # do not need to do that manually unless we use setup-python instead.
       - name: Build binary distribution (wheel) on Windows (i686)

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -126,11 +126,6 @@ jobs:
           cache: false
           check-latest: true
 
-      - uses: mlugg/setup-zig@a67e68dc5c8281d9608136d3d7ca1b282213e4ac # v1.2.1
-        with:
-          version: 0.13.0
-          use-cache: false
-
       - name: Restore Hugo builder cache
         uses: actions/cache@1bd1e32a3bdc45362d1e726936510720a7c30a57 # v4.2.0
         with:

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
   "setuptools>=77.0.3",
-  # s390x and ppc64le wheels are not yet available
-  "ziglang==0.13.0; platform_machine != 's390x' and platform_machine != 'ppc64le'",
+  # linux s390x and windows arm64 wheels are not yet available
+  "ziglang==0.14.0; platform_machine != 's390x'",
+  "ziglang==0.14.0; sys_platform != 'win32' or platform_machine != 'arm64'",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 

setup.py

@@ -204,8 +204,11 @@ def _setup_zig_compiler(self):
 
         zig_target = zig_target_map.get((goos, goarch))
         if zig_target:
-            os.environ["CC"] = f"zig cc -target {zig_target}"
-            os.environ["CXX"] = f"zig c++ -target {zig_target}"
+            os.environ["CC"] = f"{sys.executable} -m ziglang cc -target {zig_target}"
+            os.environ["CXX"] = f"{sys.executable} -m ziglang c++ -target {zig_target}"
+            if zig_target == "x86-windows-gnu":
+                os.environ["CC"] += " -w"
+                os.environ["CXX"] += " -w"
             # Add additional flags to the linker to ensure that the binary is
             # stripped of debug information and is as small as possible for release
             os.environ["CGO_CFLAGS"] = "-g0 -O3 -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections"