What build systems work with Go?

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Isaiah picture Isaiah · Nov 15, 2009 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

I know that the Go source comes with a Makefile (It's in $GOROOT/doc) which I am using right now, but have other popular build systems added support for Go yet? Has anyone written build scripts for scons, waf etc...

What do you use to build your Go programs?

Answer

Ross Light picture Ross Light · Nov 15, 2009

I've been using scons; this is an example SConstruct file:

archs = {'amd64': '6', '386': '8', 'arm': '5',}

def gc(source, target, env, for_signature):
    targets = target[0]
    sources = ' '.join(str(s) for s in source)
    flags = ''
    for include in env.get('GOINCLUDE', []):
        flags += '-I %s ' % (include)
    return '%s -o %s %s %s' % (env['GOCOMPILER'], targets, flags, sources)

def ld(source, target, env, for_signature):
    targets = target[0]
    sources = ' '.join(str(s) for s in source)
    return '%s -o %s %s' % (env['GOLINKER'], targets, sources)

def _go_object_suffix(env, sources):
    return "." + archs[env['ENV']['GOARCH']]

def _go_program_prefix(env, sources):
    return env['PROGPREFIX']

def _go_program_suffix(env, sources):
    return env['PROGSUFFIX']

go_compiler = Builder(generator=gc,
                      suffix=_go_object_suffix,
                      src_suffix='.go',)
go_linker = Builder(generator=ld,
                    prefix=_go_program_prefix,
                    suffix=_go_program_suffix,)

# Create environment
import os
env = Environment(BUILDERS={'Go': go_compiler, 'GoProgram': go_linker},
                  ENV=os.environ,)
arch_prefix = archs[os.environ['GOARCH']]
env.SetDefault(GOCOMPILER=os.path.join(os.environ['GOBIN'], arch_prefix + 'g'))
env.SetDefault(GOLINKER=os.path.join(os.environ['GOBIN'], arch_prefix + 'l'))
# Build programs
# Modify this to suit your program
main_package = env.Go(target='main', source='main.go')
program = env.GoProgram(target='program', source=[main_package])

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