Back then (a year ago?) I simply included the Windows.h header into a Zig file. Is that not possible anymore? It worked great back then for me IIRC!
Overall, I liked the build system. What I found annoying is that I had to manually search for the Windows SDK path in build.zig just so I can addIncludePath it. I needed that so I can add ICU as a dependency.
The only thing that bothered me apart from that was that producing LTO'd, stripped release builds while retaining debug symbols in a separate file was seemingly impossible. This was extra bad for Windows, where conventionally debug information is always kept in a separate file (a PDB). That just didn't work and it'd be great if that was fixed since back then (or in the near term).
Overall, I liked the build system. What I found annoying is that I had to manually search for the Windows SDK path in build.zig just so I can addIncludePath it. I needed that so I can add ICU as a dependency.
The only thing that bothered me apart from that was that producing LTO'd, stripped release builds while retaining debug symbols in a separate file was seemingly impossible. This was extra bad for Windows, where conventionally debug information is always kept in a separate file (a PDB). That just didn't work and it'd be great if that was fixed since back then (or in the near term).