Error with 'zig build'

[OpenSourceJesus]

I cloned the game on Pop!_OS 22.04 and ran 'sudo apt-get install python3 git clang libsdl2-dev'. Then after changing directory into the cloned game, I ran 'zig build'. The terminal responded with:

fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.
unable to spawn the following command: ExitCodeFailure
git -C /home/gilead/legend-of-swarkland describe --tags 
error: the following build command failed with exit code 1:
/home/gilead/legend-of-swarkland/.zig-cache/o/d047539bab64d9a9882a3770e1a4bfc6/build /home/gilead/Downloads/zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0-dev.351+64ef45eb0/zig /home/gilead/legend-of-swarkland /home/gilead/legend-of-swarkland/.zig-cache /home/gilead/.cache/zig --seed 0xe5fc55cd -Zc0c5f8f0bfbf8c99

[OpenSourceJesus]

Wait I might be using the wrong version of Zig. I will check later.

[thejoshwolfe]

I often update the codebase to use the latest version of zig at the time of making the updates. You can check the commit history for which version of zig i've updated to most recently. Currently it's zig 0.14.0-dev.1743+eb363bf84.

[thejoshwolfe]

However, looking at that error, it looks like you didn't include the .git directory when trying to build? The game embeds some git commit information in the compiled binary to display it on the main menu, so the .git history is necessary to build.