This a plugin for KDevelop that adds language support for Zig. It uses zig's builtin parser via a library.
- Syntax error messages
- Syntax highlighting of structs, fns, enums. Rainbow colored local vars
- Goto decl, view doc comments on hover.
- Highlight usages on hover, lookup uses of fns, vars, etc..
- Resolve imports from zig std lib and user defined packages
- Evalutate some comptime expressions (enum switches, if exprs, basic math exprs)
- Basic typed fn resolution for fns that return structs or typed params (still WIP)
- Hints for type mismatches, missing args, invalid enum/struct fields, etc..
Resolving basic math expressions
The following shows it is able to resolve methods of a USBCDC driver using zig's builtin buffered writer to print.
First, build and install kdevelop from source so the test libraries are availble.
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G ninja ..
ninja install
Use zig test duchain/kdevzigastparser.zig to run zig tests.
Run the duchaintest for kdev-zig tests.
In case you run into problems with it use ninja uninstall.
To enable debug logging set the following env var.
export QT_LOGGING_RULES="kdevelop.languages.zig.duchain.debug=true;"Then run KDevelop.
You must have zig 0.12 dev installed somewhere where FindZig.cmake will find it (eg ".local/bin").
It was forked from kdev-rust and borrows code from kdev-python so licensed under the GPL.