add zig for linux

src/.vitepress/config.mts

@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ const windowsSidebar = [
             { text: "VS Code", link: "/windows/vscode" },
             { text: "Notepad", link: "/windows/notepad" },
             { text: "Utilities", link: "/windows/utilities" },
-            { text: "Zig", link: "/windows/zig" },
             { text: "Next Steps", link: "/windows/next"},
         ]
     },
@@ -103,6 +102,7 @@ const toolSidebar = [
             { text: "Python", link: "/tool/python" },
             { text: "Node + Deno", link: "/tool/node" },
             { text: "Go", link: "/tool/go" },
+            { text: "Zig", link: "/tool/zig" },
            // { text: "NX", link: "/tool/nx" },
         ]
     },

src/tool/nvim.md

@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ cargo install ripgrep websocat fd-find
 ```
 
 ## Install
+:::warning
+[`zig`](./zig.md) is strongly strongly recommended for Windows for compiling treesitter,
+as it is a C-compatible compiler. Otherwise you need to figure out how
+to make MSVC available through the command line, which is not convenient.
+:::
 Arch Linux:
    1. `nvim` should be bootstrapped during the full install. If not, you can install with
       ```bash
@@ -19,18 +24,17 @@ Arch Linux:
       dotbin-link
       ```
 Windows:
-   1. Make sure you have [`zig`](../windows/zig.md) installed for compiling tree-sitter
-   2. Download the latest stable release from https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases.
+   1. Download the latest stable release from https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases.
       Save `nvim-win64.zip` to the `Downloads` directory
-   3. Extract it
+   2. Extract it
       ```powershell
       7z x -y ~/Downloads/nvim-win64.zip "-o$HOME/dotbin/extra/portable"
-   4. Configure link
+   3. Configure link
       ```powershell
       Add-Content -Path ~/dotbin/extra/portable/link -Value "alias=vi,vim:shim:nvim-win64/bin/nvim.exe`nshim:nvim-win64/bin/win32yank.exe`nshim:nvim-win64/bin/xxd.exe"
       sudo dotbin-link
       ```
-   5. Exclude `nvim` from Windows Defender.
+   4. Exclude `nvim` from Windows Defender.
       ```powershell
       Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath ~/dotbin
       Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess nvim

src/tool/zig.md

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# Zig
+Zig is a programming language that tries to be a modern C.
+Thanks to being a C-compatible compiler, it is a really good option
+for compiling C on Windows
+
+:::warning
+Zig is still not stable yet. Therefore we are installing the latest
+dev version from the website instead of through package managers
+:::
+
+## Install
+- Windows:
+    1. Download ZIP from https://ziglang.org/download/ and put it in `Downloads`
+    2. Set version for scripts
+        ```powershell
+        $version="0.14.0-dev.2079+ba2d00663"
+    3. Extract it
+        ```powershell
+        7z x -y ~/Downloads/zig-windows-x86_64-$version.zip "-o$HOME/dotbin/extra/portable"
+    3. Configure link
+        ```powershell
+        Add-Content -Path ~\dotbin\extra\portable\link -Value "zig-*/zig.exe"
+        sudo dotbin-link
+        ```
+    4. Verify installation
+        ```powershell
+        zig version
+        ```
+    5. Exclude `zig` from Windows Defender so compilation is faster
+        ```powershell
+        Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath ~/dotbin
+        Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess zig
+        ```
+        :::warning
+        Run as admin!
+        :::
+- Linux
+    1. Set version for scripts
+        ```bash
+        VERSION="0.14.0-dev.2079+ba2d00663"
+        ```
+    2. Download and extract
+        ```bash
+        wget https://ziglang.org/builds/zig-linux-x86_64-$VERSION.tar.xz -O ~/zig-$VERSION.tar.xz
+        7z x -y ~/zig-$VERSION.tar.xz -so | 7z x -y -si -ttar "-o$HOME/dotbin/extra/portable"
+        chmod +x ~/dotbin/extra/portable/zig-*/zig
+        ```
+    3. Configure link
+        ```bash
+        echo "zig-*/zig" >> ~/dotbin/extra/portable/link
+        dotbin-link
+        ```
+    4. Verify installation
+        ```bash
+        zig version
+        ```