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Installation instructions to build Zig on Ubuntu 20.04
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These instructions assert a clean install of Ubuntu 20.04 with no previous LLVM or C compiler installed.

Install LLVM 11

  apt update
  apt install wget lsb-release software-properties-common
  bash -c "$(wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh 11)"
  ln -s /usr/lib/llvm-11/bin/lld   /usr/bin/lld 
  ln -s /usr/lib/llvm-11/bin/clang /usr/bin/clang
  ln -s /usr/lib/llvm-11/bin/clang /usr/bin/c++
  apt update
  apt install llvm-11 clang-11 libclang-11-dev liblld-11-dev

Install Zig

  apt install git cmake
  git clone https://github.com/ziglang/zig.git
  git checkout 0.6.0

Build Zig stage 1

  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake ..
  make install

Build Zig stage 2

  ./build/bin/zig build --prefix $(pwd)/stage2 -Denable-llvm
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