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conoro / cross-compile-go-arm64.md
Created April 23, 2016 16:24
Cross-compiling Golang for ARM64 (aarch64) e.g. Pine64 on Fedora AMD64
  • Install Go for Linux the usual way on your main Linux box:
cd
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.6.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf go1.6.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv go /usr/local/
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
mkdir -p ~/gitwork/go/src
mkdir ~/gitwork/go/bin

Problems & Solutions for Interaction Between C and Go

At Vimeo, on the transcoding team, we work a lot with Go, and a lot with C, for various tasks such as media ingest. This means we use CGO quite extensively, and consequently, have run into bits that are perhaps not very well documented, if at all. Below is my effort to document some of the problems we've run into, and how we fixed or worked around them.

Many of these are obviously wrong in retrospect, but hindsight is 20/20, and these problems do exist in many codebases currently.

Some are definitely ugly, and I much welcome better solutions! Tweet me at @daemon404 if you have any, or have your own CGO story/tips, please! I'd love to learn of them.

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