Die Binärdatei paketieren und veröffentlichen

Your tool works on your machine. The last step is turning it into a fast, shareable binary others can download and run. 🚀

For a real release, drive the build through build.zig. One command compiles your project into an artifact in the zig-out folder.

Debug builds add safety checks that slow things down. Pass an optimize flag to strip them and produce a fast production binary.

Choose your goal: ReleaseFast favors raw speed, while ReleaseSmall shrinks the binary size. ReleaseSafe keeps checks but still optimizes.

For a quick one-off binary without build.zig, use build-exe directly on your source file. Great for small standalone tools.

Zig's superpower: build for other systems with one flag. The -target triple names the OS, architecture, and ABI you want.

Linking against musl produces a fully static binary with no runtime dependencies. Users just download one file and run it.

Run the build once per target to produce Linux, macOS, and Windows binaries from your single machine, no other compilers needed.

The build system drops your finished executable in the zig-out/bin directory by default. That file is what you upload and distribute.

Wire a run step into build.zig so zig build run compiles and launches the tool, letting you smoke-test the release build instantly.

Tag a version, attach the per-platform binaries to a release page, and write short usage notes. Now anyone can grab and run your tool. 🎉

Recall which flag tells Zig to build a fast, optimized binary.

You built with ReleaseFast, cross-compiled with -target, made static musl binaries, and found them in zig-out. Your CLI is ready to ship. 🎯