diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f8016ebc983a919ac20ab34980ac3f5d1fd9e275..ddcd0a44ffc28e4f83e72934703d4a727e3d91de 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /bin
 /zigmod*
+/zig-cache
diff --git a/build.zig b/build.zig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9b49657093419ba294ee615c37ba943248a751d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+const std = @import("std");
+const Builder = std.build.Builder;
+const builtin = @import("builtin");
+
+pub fn build(b: *Builder) void {
+    const target = b.standardTargetOptions(.{});
+
+    b.setPreferredReleaseMode(.ReleaseSafe);
+    const mode = b.standardReleaseOptions();
+
+    const use_full_name = b.option(bool, "use-full-name", "") orelse false;
+    const with_os_arch = b.fmt("-{}-{}", .{@tagName(target.os_tag orelse builtin.os.tag), @tagName(target.cpu_arch orelse builtin.arch)});
+    const exe_name = b.fmt("{}{}", .{ "zigmod-zig", if (use_full_name) with_os_arch else "" });
+
+    const exe = b.addExecutable(exe_name, "src/main.zig");
+    exe.setTarget(target);
+    exe.setBuildMode(mode);
+    exe.strip = true;
+
+    exe.install();
+
+    const run_cmd = exe.run();
+    run_cmd.step.dependOn(b.getInstallStep());
+    if (b.args) |args| {
+        run_cmd.addArgs(args);
+    }
+
+    const run_step = b.step("run", "Run the app");
+    run_step.dependOn(&run_cmd.step);
+}
diff --git a/build_all.sh b/build_all.sh
index fde240d8e619540955fbccbe535d2aa04f4ff1d3..955bda05d62928f34bf44f787f6cbe52cc828241 100755
--- a/build_all.sh
+++ b/build_all.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ build_template() {
     version=${CIRCLE_BUILD_NUM-$date}
     tag=v$version-$(git log --format=%h -1)
     echo $tag-$GOOS-$GOARCH
-    go build -ldflags="-s -w -X main.Version=$tag" -o ./bin/zigmod-$tag-$GOOS-$GOARCH$ext
+    go build -ldflags="-s -w -X main.Version=$tag" -o ./bin/zigmod-go-$tag-$GOOS-$GOARCH$ext
 }
 
 # go tool dist list | grep amd64
diff --git a/build_all_zig.sh b/build_all_zig.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..42c6f5ed2dc16213e532127564d96800dfea00ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_all_zig.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+for item in $(zig targets | jq --raw-output '.libc[]' | grep gnu$ | grep x86_64)
+do
+    echo $item
+    zig build -Dtarget=$item -Drelease -Duse-full-name
+done
diff --git a/src/main.zig b/src/main.zig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c18574df9ac7ed01b09357123195153c16a1152b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main.zig
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+const std = @import("std");
+const builtin = @import("builtin");
+
+//
+//
+
+const commands = struct {
+};
+
+pub fn main() !void {
+
+    const gpa = std.heap.c_allocator;
+
+    const proc_args = try std.process.argsAlloc(gpa);
+    const args = proc_args[1..];
+
+    u.print("args len: {}", .{args.len});
+    for (args) |a, i| {
+        u.print("arg {}: {}", .{i, a});
+    }
+
+    if (args.len == 0) {
+        u.print("zigmod-{}-{}-{}", .{@tagName(builtin.os.tag), @tagName(builtin.arch), @tagName(builtin.abi)});
+        return;
+    }
+
+    inline for (std.meta.declarations(commands)) |decl| {
+        if (std.mem.eql(u8, args[0], decl.name)) {
+            const cmd = @field(commands, decl.name);
+            try cmd.execute(args[1..]);
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+
+    std.debug.panic("Error: unknown command \"{}\" for \"zigmod\"", .{args[0]});
+}