This adds a flake.nix file that makes it possible to quickly create a
development environment.
You can download Nix here, for use on your Linux or macOS system:
https://nixos.org/download.html
After you have installed Nix, you can enter the development environment
as follows:
nix develop
This drops you into a bash shell, where you can install TinyGo simply
using the following command:
go install
That's all! Assuming you've set up your $PATH correctly, you can now use
the tinygo command as usual:
tinygo version
You can also do many other things from this environment. Building and
flashing should work as you're used to: it's not a VM or container so
there are no access restrictions.
Set -resource-dir in a central place instead of passing the header path
around everywhere and adding it using the `-I` flag. I believe this is
closer to how Clang is intended to be used.
This change was inspired by my attempt to add a Nix flake file to
TinyGo.
The old LLVM pass manager is deprecated and should not be used anymore.
Moreover, the pass manager builder (which we used to set up a pass
pipeline) is actually removed from LLVM entirely in LLVM 17:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D145387https://reviews.llvm.org/D145835
The new pass manager does change the binary size in many cases: both
growing and shrinking it. However, on average the binary size remains
more or less the same.
This is needed as a preparation for LLVM 17.
This commit adds support for LLVM 16 and switches to it by default. That
means three LLVM versions are supported at the same time: LLVM 14, 15,
and 16.
This commit includes work by QuLogic:
* Part of this work was based on a PR by QuLogic:
https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/pull/3649
But I also had parts of this already implemented in an old branch I
already made for LLVM 16.
* QuLogic also provided a CGo fix here, which is also incorporated in
this commit:
https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/pull/3869
The difference with the original PR by QuLogic is that this commit is
more complete:
* It switches to LLVM 16 by default.
* It updates some things to also make it work with a self-built LLVM.
* It fixes the CGo bug in a slightly different way, and also fixes
another one not included in the original PR.
* It does not keep compiler tests passing on older LLVM versions. I
have found this to be quite burdensome and therefore don't generally
do this - the smoke tests should hopefully catch most regressions.
This adds true GOOS=wasip1 support in addition to our existing
-target=wasi support. The old support for WASI isn't removed, but should
be treated as deprecated and will likely be removed eventually to reduce
the test burden.
It looks like this on my system, for example:
{
"target": {
"llvm-target": "aarch64-unknown-linux",
"cpu": "generic",
"features": "+neon",
"goos": "linux",
"goarch": "arm64",
"build-tags": [
"linux",
"arm64"
],
"gc": "precise",
"scheduler": "tasks",
"linker": "ld.lld",
"rtlib": "compiler-rt",
"libc": "musl",
"default-stack-size": 65536,
"ldflags": [
"--gc-sections"
],
"extra-files": [
"src/runtime/asm_arm64.S",
"src/internal/task/task_stack_arm64.S"
],
"gdb": [
"gdb"
],
"flash-1200-bps-reset": "false"
},
"goroot": "/home/ayke/.cache/tinygo/goroot-23c311bcaa05f188affa3c42310aba343acc82562d5e5f04dea9d5b79ac35f7e",
"goos": "linux",
"goarch": "arm64",
"goarm": "6",
...
}
This can be very useful while working on the automatically generated
target object for example (in my case, GOOS=wasip1).
Browsers previously didn't support the WebAssembly i64 type, so we had
to work around that limitation by converting the LLVM i64 type to
something else. Some people used a pair of i32 values, but we used a
pointer to a stack allocated i64.
Now however, all major browsers and Node.js do support WebAssembly
BigInt integration so that i64 values can be passed back and forth
between WebAssembly and JavaScript easily. Therefore, I think the time
has come to drop support for this workaround.
For more information: https://v8.dev/features/wasm-bigint (note that
TinyGo has used a slightly different way of passing i64 values between
JS and Wasm).
For information on browser support: https://webassembly.org/roadmap/
This basically reverts https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo/pull/3357
and replaces it with a different mechanism to get to the same goal.
I do not think filtering tags like this is a good idea: it's the wrong
part of the compiler to be concerned with such tags (that part sets
tags, but doesn't modify existing tags). Instead, I've written the
//go:build lines in such a way that it has the same effect: WASI
defaults to leveldb, everything else defaults to fnv, and it's possible
to override the default using build tags.
Some vector registers must be preserved across calls, but this wasn't
happening on Linux and MacOS. When I added support for windows/arm64, I
saw that it required these vector registers to be preserved and assumed
this was Windows deviating from the standard calling convention. But
actually, Windows was just implementing the standard calling convention
and the bug was on Linux and MacOS.
This commit fixes the bug on Linux and MacOS and at the same time merges
the Go and assembly files as they no longer need to be separate.
This was actually surprising once I got TinyGo to build on Windows 11
ARM64. All the changes are exactly what you'd expect for a new
architecture, there was no special weirdness just for arm64.
Actually getting TinyGo to build was kind of involved though. The very
short summary is: install arm64 versions of some pieces of software
(like golang, cmake) instead of installing them though choco. In
particular, use the llvm-mingw[1] toolchain instead of using standard
mingw.
[1]: https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw/releases
Using ThinLTO manages to optimize binaries quite significantly. The
exact amount varies a lot by program but it's about 10-15% usually.
Don't remove non-ThinLTO support yet. It would not surprise me if this
triggered some unintended side effect. Eventually, non-ThinLTO support
should be removed though.
This allows you to expand {tmpDir} in the json "emulator" field, and
uses it in wasmtime instead of custom TMPDIR mapping logic.
Before, we had custom logic for wasmtime to create a separate tmpDir
when running go tests. This overwrite the TMPDIR variable when running,
after making a mount point. A simpler way to accomplish the end goal of
writing temp files is to use wasmtime's map-dir instead. When code is
compiled to wasm with the wasi target, tempDir is always /tmp, so we
don't need to add variables (since we know what it is). Further, the
test code is the same between normal go and run through wasmtime. So, we
don't need to make a separate temp dir first, and avoiding that reduces
logic, as well makes it easier to swap out the emulator (for wazero
which has no depedencies). To map the correct directory, this introduces
a {tmpDir} token whose value is the host-specific value taken from
`os.TempDir()`.
The motivation I have for this isn't so much to clean up the wasmtime
code, but allow wazero to execute the same tests. After this change, the
only thing needed to pass tests is to change the emulator, due to
differences in how wazero deals with relative lookups (they aren't
restricted by default, so there's not a huge amount of custom logic
needed).
In other words, installing wazero from main, `make tinygo-test-wasi`
works with no other changes except this PR and patching
`targets/wasi.json`.
```json
"emulator": "wazero run -mount=.:/ -mount={tmpDir}:/tmp {}",
```
On that note, if there's a way to override the emulator via arg or env,
this would be even better, but in any case patching json is fine.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Cole <adrian@tetrate.io>
This implements the block-based GC as a partially precise GC. This means
that for most heap allocations it is known which words contain a pointer
and which don't. This should in theory make the GC faster (because it
can skip non-pointer object) and have fewer false positives in a GC
cycle. It does however use a bit more RAM to store the layout of each
object.
Right now this GC seems to be slower than the conservative GC, but
should be less likely to run out of memory as a result of false
positives.
ThinLTO results in a small code size reduction, which is nice
(especially on these very small chips). It also brings us one step
closer to using ThinLTO everywhere.
This reverts commit 0b3a7280fa and updates
the documentation a little bit to explain the purpose of -gc=none. (I'm
thinking about the attiny10 by the way where defaulting to -gc=none
makes sense).
Before this patch, `tinygo lldb path/to/package` would result in an
error:
(lldb) target create --arch=arm64-unknown-macosx10.12.0 "/var/folders/17/btmpymwj0wv6n50cmslwyr900000gn/T/tinygo2731663853/main"
error: the specified architecture 'arm64-unknown-macosx10.12.0' is not compatible with 'arm64-apple-macosx10.12.0' in '/var/folders/17/btmpymwj0wv6n50cmslwyr900000gn/T/tinygo2731663853/main'
This patch fixes this error.
Unfortunately, it doesn't get debug information to work yet. I still
haven't figured out what's going wrong here. But it's progress, I guess.
This is now possible because we're using the LLVM linker. It results in
some very minor code size reductions. The main benefit however is
consistency: eventually, all targets will support ThinLTO at which point
we can remove support for GNU linkers and simplify the compiler.
This flag controls whether to convert external i64 parameters for use in
a browser-like environment.
This flag was needed in the past because back then we only supported
wasm on browsers but no WASI. Now, I can't think of a reason why anybody
would want to change the default. For `-target=wasm` (used for
browser-like environments), the wasm_exec.js file expects this
i64-via-stack ABI. For WASI, there is no limitation on i64 values and
`-wasm-abi=generic` is the default.
This should hopefully fix the following issue:
DW_FORM_rnglistx index pointing outside of .debug_rnglists offset array [in module /tmp/tinygo4013272868/main]
This flag is necessary in LLVM 15 because it appears that LLVM 15 has
changed the default target ABI from lp64 to lp64d. This results in a
linker failure. Setting the "target-abi" forces the RISC-V backend to
use the intended target ABI.
This prefix isn't actually used and only adds noise, so remove it.
It may have been useful on Linux that makes a distinction between
/dev/ttyACM* and /dev/ttyUSB* but it isn't now. Also, it's unlikely that
the same vid/pid pair will be shared between an acm and usb driver
anyway.
Before, on the baremetal target or MacOS, we errored if the user
provided configuration to strip debug info.
Ex.
```bash
$ $ tinygo build -o main.go -scheduler=none --no-debug main.go
error: cannot remove debug information: MacOS doesn't store debug info in the executable by default
```
This is a poor experience which results in having OS-specific CLI
behavior. Silently succeeding is good keeping with the Linux philosophy
and less distracting than logging the same without failing.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Cole <adrian@tetrate.io>
This is just a papercut, and not really something important. But I
noticed something weird:
$ GOOS=windows GOARCH=arm tinygo info ""
LLVM triple: armv7-unknown-windows-gnueabihf-gnu
GOOS: windows
GOARCH: arm
That -gnueabihf-gnu ending is weird, it should pick one of the two. I've
fixed it as follows:
$ GOOS=windows GOARCH=arm tinygo info ""
LLVM triple: armv7-unknown-windows-gnu
GOOS: windows
GOARCH: arm
[...]
We're probably never going to support windows/arm (this is 32-bit arm,
not arm64) so it doesn't really matter which one we pick. And this patch
shouldn't affect any other system.
Randy Reddig
sago35
deadprogram
Ayke van Laethem
Kenneth Bell
Damian Gryski
Anuraag Agrawal
Adrian Cole
Yurii Soldak