Golang Build For Windows On Mac

However, if you are using Mac for the first time and you do not know, you can follow these steps.At first, you need to download the dynamic wallpaper to your computer.

See here for available GOOS and GOARCH values.

(Mac, Windows). Which package is best depends on your needs. Related course: GUI Application Development in Go: Build graphical applications with Go.

Go version >= 1.5

Since Go version 1.5 cross-compiling of pure Go executables has become very easy. Try it out with the code below. More can be found at this blog post by Dave Cheney.

In cmd.exe instead of PowerShell:

You can now run hello.exe on a Windows machine near you.

Note that the command above will silently rebuild most of standard library, and for this reason will be quite slow. To speed-up the process, you can install all the windows-amd64 standard packages on your system with

Note also that cgo is disabled when cross-compiling, so any file that mentions import 'C' will be silently ignored (See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24068). In order to use cgo, or any of the build modes c-archive, c-shared, shared, plugin, you need to have a C cross-compiler.

Older Go version (<1.5)

I use linux/386, but, I suspect, this procedure will apply to other host platforms as well.

Preparation (if needed):

First step is to build host version of go:

Next you need to build the rest of go compilers and linkers. I have small program to do that:

Last step is to build windows versions of standard commands and libraries. I have small script for that too:

I run it like that:

to build windows/386 version of Go commands and packages. You can, probably, see it from my script, I exclude building of any cgo related parts - these will not work for me, since I do not have correspondent gcc cross-compiling tools installed. So I just skip those.

Now we're ready to build our windows executable:

We just need to find a Windows computer to run our hello.exe.

How do I install Go language on Apple Mac OS X? How to setup GO lanuage on Mac OS X? How do I install Go language version 1.2+ on OS X?
Go or golang, is a programming language initially developed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Just like Linux kernel it has many contributors from the open source community. From the official project site:

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Go is distributed under a BSD-style license. It is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It’s a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

Install Xcode and gcc

First, you need to use the gcc that comes with Xcode. See how to install and use Xcode on Apple Mac OS X for more information.

Installing Golang on Mac OS X

Google provides the package file for OS X. All you have to do is visit this page and grab the latest version. Once downloaded, open it, and follow the prompts to install the Go tools. The package installs the Go distribution to /usr/local/go directory:

Verify your installation

Open the Terminal and type the following commands:
$ ls -l /usr/local/go
Sample outputs:

Type the following command to display Go environment information:
$ go env
Sample outputs:

Writing your first Go program

Create a text file called hello.go using a text editor such as vi/vim:
$ vi hello.go
Append the following code:

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Test and run hello.go, enter:
$ go run hello.go
Sample outputs:

To build an executable i.e. compile packages and dependencies into an executable file, enter:
$ go build hello.go
You will get an executable file called hello in the current directory:

You can run hello program as follows:
$ ./hello

Getting help

The go command is a tool for managing Go source code. To see basic help, type:
$ go help
Sample outputs:

To get more information on specific topic, type:

References:

• See the Golang home page and documenation for more information.

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