Golang compile for all platforms in Windows 7 (32 bit)
On Windows run the following commands:
C:\Users\user\go\src\myapp> set GOOS=linux
C:\Users\user\go\src\myapp> set GOARCH=amd64
C:\Users\user\go\src\myapp> go build
It worked for me.
Notice, if you get the error:
cmd/go: unsupported GOOS/GOARCH pair linux/amd64
This is because you have a space at the end of the variable.
Example, wrong use is: set GOOS=linux<space>)
, instead it should be: set GOOS=linux
.
This is the full table list (taken from here) for all the other systems:
GOOS - Target Operating System| GOARCH - Target Platform
-------------------------------|--------------------------
| android | arm |
| darwin | 386 |
| darwin | amd64 |
| darwin | arm |
| darwin | arm64 |
| dragonfly | amd64 |
| freebsd | 386 |
| freebsd | amd64 |
| freebsd | arm |
| linux | 386 |
| linux | amd64 |
| linux | arm |
| linux | arm64 |
| linux | ppc64 |
| linux | ppc64le |
| linux | mips |
| linux | mipsle |
| linux | mips64 |
| linux | mips64le |
| netbsd | 386 |
| netbsd | amd64 |
| netbsd | arm |
| openbsd | 386 |
| openbsd | amd64 |
| openbsd | arm |
| plan9 | 386 |
| plan9 | amd64 |
| solaris | amd64 |
| windows | 386 |
| windows | amd64 |
----------------------------------------------------------
You can find the full list of supported GOOS/GOARCH platforms supported by your go
by running go tool dist list
.
For Go 1.18.1, this shows the following pairs, after filtering based on the target OSes you said you are interested in:
$ go tool dist list | grep -e linux -e darwin -e windows darwin/amd64 darwin/arm64 linux/386 linux/amd64 linux/arm linux/arm64 linux/mips linux/mips64 linux/mips64le linux/mipsle linux/ppc64 linux/ppc64le linux/riscv64 linux/s390x windows/386 windows/amd64 windows/arm windows/arm64
If you want to compile your code for all of these, you can do this with the bash/sh script below:
bin_name='example' # Change the binary name as desired
go tool dist list | grep -e linux -e darwin -e windows | while read -r pair; do
# Extract the GOOS and GOARCH from the pair
GOOS="${pair%/*}"
GOARCH="${pair#*/}"
suffix=''
# If GOOS is windows, set suffix to .exe
[ "$GOOS" = 'windows' ] && suffix='.exe'
# Replace <args> with appropriate arguments as needed
GOOS="$GOOS" GOARCH="$GOARCH" \
go build -o "${bin_name}-${GOOS}-${GOARCH}${suffix}" <args>
done
This script will produce an executable for each OS/architecture pair, and append the OS and architecture at the end of the name. It will also append .exe
if the OS is Windows.
Update Go 1.5: see "Cross compilation just got a whole lot better in Go 1.5"
For successful cross compilation you would need
- compilers for the target platform, if they differed from your host platform, ie you’re on darwin/amd64 (6g) and you want to compile for linux/arm (5g).
- a standard library for the target platform, which included some files generated at the point your Go distribution was built.
With the plan to translate the Go compiler into Go coming to fruition in the 1.5 release the first issue is now resolved.
package main
import "fmt"
import "runtime"
func main() {
fmt.Printf("Hello %s/%s\n", runtime.GOOS, runtime.GOARCH)
}
build for darwin/386
% env GOOS=darwin GOARCH=386 go build hello.go
# scp to darwin host
$ ./hello
Hello darwin/386
Or build for linux/arm
% env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=7 go build hello.go
# scp to linux host
$ ./hello
Hello linux/arm
Original answer (Go 1.4 and before)
You can try a tool like gox
Gox is a simple, no-frills tool for Go cross compilation 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.Before you use Gox, you must build the cross-compilation toolchain. Gox can do this for you. This only has to be done once (or whenever you update Go):
$ gox -build-toolchain
You will also find many cross-platform development tips at "Developing for Multiple Platforms With Go".
Passionate Developer points out below to issue 19, left by the OP Nakka Chandra, even though issue 10 reported making gox run successfully on Windows.