Gox is a simple, no-frills tool for Go cross compilation tool that behaves a
lot like standard go build. Gox will parallelize builds for multiple
platforms. Gox will also build the cross-compilation toolchain for you.
Installation
To install Gox, please use go get. We tag versions so feel free to
checkout that tag and compile.
$ go get github.com/mitchellh/gox
...
$ gox -h
...
Usage
If you know how to use go build, then you know how to use Gox. For
example, to build the current package, specify no parameters and just
call gox. Gox will parallelize based on the number of CPUs you have
by default and build for every platform by default:
And more! Just run gox -h for help and additional information.
Versus Other Cross-Compile Tools
A big thanks to these other options for existing. They each paved the
way in many aspects to make Go cross-compilation approachable.
Dave Cheney's golang-crosscompile -
Gox compiles for multiple platforms and can therefore easily run on
any platform Go supports, whereas Dave's scripts require a shell. Gox
will also parallelize builds. Dave's scripts build sequentially. Gox has
much easier to use OS/Arch filtering built in.
goxc -
A very richly featured tool that can even do things such as build system
packages, upload binaries, generate download webpages, etc. Gox is a
super slim alternative that only cross-compiles binaries. Gox builds packages in parallel, whereas
goxc doesn't. Gox doesn't enforce a specific output structure for built
binaries.