Get rid of copies of the Zig version

.github/actions/install/action.yml

@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@ name: "Browsercore install"
 description: "Install deps for the project browsercore"
 
 inputs:
-  zig:
-    description: 'Zig version to install'
-    required: false
-    default: '0.15.2'
   arch:
     description: 'CPU arch used to select the v8 lib'
     required: false
@@ -38,9 +34,8 @@ runs:
         sudo apt-get update
         sudo apt-get install -y wget xz-utils python3 ca-certificates git pkg-config libglib2.0-dev gperf libexpat1-dev cmake clang
 
+    # Zig version used from the `minimum_zig_version` field in build.zig.zon
     - uses: mlugg/setup-zig@v2
-      with:
-        version: ${{ inputs.zig }}
 
     - name: Cache v8
       id: cache-v8

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -26,10 +26,9 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 15
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-          # fetch submodules recusively, to get zig-js-runtime submodules also.
           submodules: recursive
 
       - uses: ./.github/actions/install

.github/workflows/e2e-test.yml

@@ -49,10 +49,9 @@ jobs:
     if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-          # fetch submodules recusively, to get zig-js-runtime submodules also.
           submodules: recursive
 
       - uses: ./.github/actions/install

.github/workflows/wpt.yml

@@ -22,10 +22,9 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 90
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-          # fetch submodules recusively, to get zig-js-runtime submodules also.
           submodules: recursive
 
       - uses: ./.github/actions/install

.github/workflows/zig-fmt.yml

@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 name: zig-fmt
 
-env:
-  ZIG_VERSION: 0.15.2
-
 on:
   pull_request:
 
@@ -32,14 +29,13 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 15
 
     steps:
-      - uses: mlugg/setup-zig@v2
-        with:
-          version: ${{ env.ZIG_VERSION }}
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
 
+      # Zig version used from the `minimum_zig_version` field in build.zig.zon
+      - uses: mlugg/setup-zig@v2
+
       - name: Run zig fmt
         id: fmt
         run: |
@@ -58,6 +54,7 @@ jobs:
           fi
 
           echo "${delimiter}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+
       - name: Fail the job
         if: steps.fmt.outputs.zig_fmt_errs != ''
         run: exit 1

.github/workflows/zig-test.yml

@@ -47,10 +47,9 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-          # fetch submodules recusively, to get zig-js-runtime submodules also.
           submodules: recursive
 
       - uses: ./.github/actions/install

Dockerfile

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 FROM debian:stable-slim
 
 ARG MINISIG=0.12
-ARG ZIG=0.15.2
 ARG ZIG_MINISIG=RWSGOq2NVecA2UPNdBUZykf1CCb147pkmdtYxgb3Ti+JO/wCYvhbAb/U
 ARG V8=14.0.365.4
 ARG ZIG_V8=v0.1.34
@@ -17,25 +16,25 @@ RUN apt-get update -yq && \
 
 # install minisig
 RUN curl --fail -L -O https://github.com/jedisct1/minisign/releases/download/${MINISIG}/minisign-${MINISIG}-linux.tar.gz && \
-    tar xvzf minisign-${MINISIG}-linux.tar.gz
+    tar xvzf minisign-${MINISIG}-linux.tar.gz -C /
+
+# clone lightpanda
+RUN git clone https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser.git
+WORKDIR /browser
 
 # install zig
-RUN case $TARGETPLATFORM in \
+RUN ZIG=$(grep '\.minimum_zig_version = "' "build.zig.zon" | cut -d'"' -f2) && \
+    case $TARGETPLATFORM in \
       "linux/arm64") ARCH="aarch64" ;; \
       *) ARCH="x86_64" ;; \
     esac && \
     curl --fail -L -O https://ziglang.org/download/${ZIG}/zig-${ARCH}-linux-${ZIG}.tar.xz && \
     curl --fail -L -O https://ziglang.org/download/${ZIG}/zig-${ARCH}-linux-${ZIG}.tar.xz.minisig && \
-    minisign-linux/${ARCH}/minisign -Vm zig-${ARCH}-linux-${ZIG}.tar.xz -P ${ZIG_MINISIG} && \
+    /minisign-linux/${ARCH}/minisign -Vm zig-${ARCH}-linux-${ZIG}.tar.xz -P ${ZIG_MINISIG} && \
     tar xvf zig-${ARCH}-linux-${ZIG}.tar.xz && \
     mv zig-${ARCH}-linux-${ZIG} /usr/local/lib && \
     ln -s /usr/local/lib/zig-${ARCH}-linux-${ZIG}/zig /usr/local/bin/zig
 
-# clone lightpanda
-RUN git clone https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser.git
-
-WORKDIR /browser
-
 # install deps
 RUN git submodule init && \
     git submodule update --recursive

Makefile

@@ -47,18 +47,7 @@ help:
 
 # $(ZIG) commands
 # ------------
-.PHONY: build build-dev run run-release shell test bench download-zig wpt data
-.PHONY: end2end
-
-zig_version = $(shell grep 'recommended_zig_version = "' "vendor/zig-js-runtime/build.zig" | cut -d'"' -f2)
-
-## Download the zig recommended version
-download-zig:
-	$(eval url = "https://ziglang.org/download/$(zig_version)/zig-$(OS)-$(ARCH)-$(zig_version).tar.xz")
-	$(eval dest = "/tmp/zig-$(OS)-$(ARCH)-$(zig_version).tar.xz")
-	@printf "\e[36mDownload zig version $(zig_version)...\e[0m\n"
-	@curl -o "$(dest)" -L "$(url)" || (printf "\e[33mBuild ERROR\e[0m\n"; exit 1;)
-	@printf "\e[33mDownloaded $(dest)\e[0m\n"
+.PHONY: build build-dev run run-release shell test bench wpt data end2end
 
 ## Build in release-safe mode
 build:

build.zig

@@ -21,38 +21,21 @@ const builtin = @import("builtin");
 
 const Build = std.Build;
 
-/// Do not rename this constant. It is scanned by some scripts to determine
-/// which zig version to install.
-const recommended_zig_version = "0.15.2";
-
 pub fn build(b: *Build) !void {
-    switch (comptime builtin.zig_version.order(std.SemanticVersion.parse(recommended_zig_version) catch unreachable)) {
-        .eq => {},
-        .lt => {
-            @compileError("The minimum version of Zig required to compile is '" ++ recommended_zig_version ++ "', found '" ++ builtin.zig_version_string ++ "'.");
-        },
-        .gt => {
-            std.debug.print(
-                "WARNING: Recommended Zig version '{s}', but found '{s}', build may fail...\n\n",
-                .{ recommended_zig_version, builtin.zig_version_string },
-            );
-        },
-    }
-
-    var opts = b.addOptions();
-    opts.addOption(
-        []const u8,
-        "git_commit",
-        b.option([]const u8, "git_commit", "Current git commit") orelse "dev",
-    );
-
-    const prebuilt_v8_path = b.option([]const u8, "prebuilt_v8_path", "Path to prebuilt libc_v8.a");
-
     const target = b.standardTargetOptions(.{});
     const optimize = b.standardOptimizeOption(.{});
 
-    // We're still using llvm because the new x86 backend seems to crash
-    // with v8. This can be reproduced in zig-v8-fork.
+    const manifest = Manifest.init(b);
+
+    const git_commit = b.option([]const u8, "git_commit", "Current git commit");
+    const prebuilt_v8_path = b.option([]const u8, "prebuilt_v8_path", "Path to prebuilt libc_v8.a");
+
+    var opts = b.addOptions();
+    opts.addOption([]const u8, "version", manifest.version);
+    opts.addOption([]const u8, "git_commit", git_commit orelse "dev");
+
+    // We're still using llvm because the new x86 backend seems to crash with v8.
+    // This can be reproduced in zig-v8-fork.
 
     const lightpanda_module = b.addModule("lightpanda", .{
         .root_source_file = b.path("src/main.zig"),
@@ -851,3 +834,28 @@ pub fn buildAda(b: *Build, m: *Build.Module) !void {
     // Expose ada module to main module.
     m.addImport("ada", ada_mod);
 }
+
+const Manifest = struct {
+    version: []const u8,
+    minimum_zig_version: []const u8,
+
+    fn init(b: *std.Build) Manifest {
+        const input = @embedFile("build.zig.zon");
+
+        var diagnostics: std.zon.parse.Diagnostics = .{};
+        defer diagnostics.deinit(b.allocator);
+
+        return std.zon.parse.fromSlice(Manifest, b.allocator, input, &diagnostics, .{
+            .free_on_error = true,
+            .ignore_unknown_fields = true,
+        }) catch |err| {
+            switch (err) {
+                error.OutOfMemory => @panic("OOM"),
+                error.ParseZon => {
+                    std.debug.print("Parse diagnostics:\n{f}\n", .{diagnostics});
+                    std.process.exit(1);
+                },
+            }
+        };
+    }
+};

build.zig.zon

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 .{
     .name = .browser,
-    .paths = .{""},
     .version = "0.0.0",
-    .fingerprint = 0xda130f3af836cea0,
+    .fingerprint = 0xda130f3af836cea0, // Changing this has security and trust implications.
+    .minimum_zig_version = "0.15.2",
     .dependencies = .{
         .v8 = .{
             .url = "https://github.com/lightpanda-io/zig-v8-fork/archive/e047d2a4d5af5783763f0f6a652fab8982a08603.tar.gz",
@@ -18,4 +18,5 @@
             .hash = "boringssl-0.1.0-VtJeWehMAAA4RNnwRnzEvKcS9rjsR1QVRw1uJrwXxmVK",
         },
     },
+    .paths = .{""},
 }