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I know of "zig cc" -- the same article says:

  There are some follow-up issues related to zig cc which are still open:
  - ...
  - support compiling and linking c++ code

Did this change recently? I've tried "zig cc" for C++ before and asked on the Discord and was told it wasn't capable of it.

  rayga@DESKTOP-88A51E5 MINGW64 ~/Projects/tmp/zig-cc-test
  $ zig version
  0.9.0-dev.959+f011f1393

  rayga@DESKTOP-88A51E5 MINGW64 ~/Projects/tmp/zig-cc-test
  $ zig cc test.cpp
  test.cpp:1:10: fatal error: 'iostream' file not found
  #include <iostream>
          ^~~~~~~~~~
  1 error generated.

  rayga@DESKTOP-88A51E5 MINGW64 ~/Projects/tmp/zig-cc-test
  $ clang test.cpp

  rayga@DESKTOP-88A51E5 MINGW64 ~/Projects/tmp/zig-cc-test
  $

https://ziglang.org/download/0.8.0/release-notes.html#zig-c

> zig c++ is equivalent to zig cc with an added -lc++ parameter, but I made a separate heading here because I realized that some people are not aware that Zig supports compiling C++ code and providing libc++ too!

You can also mix Zig code and C++ like this:

    zig build-exe foo.zig bar.cpp -lc++ -lc

At the end of the post is a link to a Github issue to "support compiling and linking c++ code":

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/4786

It was closed in March of 2020.

you need to use `zig c++` to compile cpp code

Oh, sweet thanks.

Indeed it also right under "zig cc" in the output for "zig --help" too, if that wasn't clear enough:

  $ zig --help
  Usage: zig [command] [options]

  Commands:

    cc               Use Zig as a drop-in C compiler
    c++              Use Zig as a drop-in C++ compiler

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