Zig Version Manager (zvm) is a tool for managing your Zig installs. With std under heavy development and a large feature roadmap, Zig is bound to continue changing. Breaking existing builds, updating valid sytax, and introducing new features like a package manager. While this is great for developers, it also can lead to headaches when you need multiple versions of a language installed to compile your projects, or a language gets updated frequently.
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tristanisham/zvm/master/install.sh | bash
If you're on Windows, please grab the latest release.
zvm
on the Arch AUR is a community
maintained package, and may be out of date.
While Zig is still pre-1.0 if you're going to stay up-to-date with the master
branch, you're going to be downloading Zig quite often. You could do it
manually, having to scoll around to find your appropriate version, decompress
it, and install it on your $PATH
. Or, you could install ZVM and run
zvm i master
every time you want to update. zvm
is a static binary under a
permissive license. It supports more platforms than any other Zig version
manager. It's only dependency is tar
on Unix-based systems. Whether you're on
Windows, MacOS, Linux, a flavor of BSD, or Plan 9 zvm
will let you install,
switch between, and run multiple versions of Zig.
zvm
is stable software. Pre-v1.0.0 any breaking changes will be clearly
labeled, and any commands potentially on the chopping block will print notice.
The program is under constant development, and the author is very willing to
work with contributors. If you have any issues, ideas, or contributions you'd
like to suggest
create a GitHub issue.
zvm install <version>
# Or
zvm i <version>
Use install
or i
to download a specific version of Zig. To install the
latest version, use "master".
# Example
zvm i master
zvm use <version>
Use use
to switch between versions of Zig.
# Example
zvm use master
# Example
zvm ls
Use ls
to list all installed version of Zig.
# Example
zvm rm 0.10.0
Use uninstall
or rm
to remove an uninstalled version from your system.
# Example
zvm clean
Use clean
to remove build artifacts (Good if you're on Windows).
zvm version
# Or
zvm --version
# Or
zvm -v
Prints the version of ZVM you have installed.
zvm help
# Or
zvm --help
# Or
zvm -h
--nocolor, --nocolour # Turns off ANSI color.
--color, --colour # Toggles ANSI color.
--yescolor, --yescolour # Turns on ANSI color.