== Cross-Compilation

Go supports cross-compilation. The environment variables GOOS (e.g. linux,
netbsd, …) and GOARCH (amd64, 386, arm) influence the resulting binary.

For example, to compile helloworld for linux_386, use:

    ~/gocode/src/helloworld $ GOARCH=386 go build                             
    ~/gocode/src/helloworld $ file helloworld
    helloworld: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
    statically linked, not stripped

If you get an error message like this:

    ~/gocode/src/helloworld $ GOARCH=386 go build
    go build runtime: linux/386 must be bootstrapped using make.bash

…you are missing the appropriate golang-go-$GOOS-$GOARCH debian package,
i.e. golang-go-linux-386 in this case.

-- Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>  Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:34:12 +0200