Gox: Simple and real go Platform cross-compilation tool

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Gox is a simple, non-fancy go Platform cross-compiling tool that uses the go build same standards. Gox will compile for multiple platforms in parallel. Gox also provides a set of cross-compiler toolchain.

Gox Project Address: Https://github.com/mitchellh/gox

Installation

In order to install Gox, please use the go get . We have tagged the version so we can switch the tag randomly to compile it:

$ go Get Github.com/mitchellh/gox
...
$ gox-h
...

Usage

Before you can use Gox, you must have a cross-compilation toolchain. Gox can help you do this automatically. All you need to do is run (each time you update go to do this):

$ gox-build-toolchain
...

When you're done with this, you can be ready to cross-compile.
If you know how to use it go build , then you know how to use Gox. For example, to compile the current project without supplying parameters, just call gox . Gox will be compiled for each platform in parallel based on the number of CPUs:

$ Gox
Number of parallel builds:4

-Darwin/386:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Darwin/amd64:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Linux/386:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Linux/amd64:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Linux/arm:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Freebsd/386:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Freebsd/amd64:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Openbsd/386:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Openbsd/amd64:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Windows/386:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Windows/amd64:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Freebsd/arm:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Netbsd/386:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Netbsd/amd64:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Netbsd/arm:github.com/mitchellh/gox
-Plan9/386:github.com/mitchellh/gox

Or, you just want to compile a project and sub-project:

$ Gox./...
...

Or, you want to just compile for Linux:

$ gox-os= "Linux"
...

Or, you just want to compile for 64-bit Linux:

$ gox-osarch= "Linux/amd64"
...

There are more options that can be gox -h viewed with help.

Comparison with other cross-compilation tools

Thank you very much for the tools that have given us more choices, and they have contributed a lot to the cross-compiling tools of the Go platform.

• Dave Cheney's Cross compiler: Gox can be compiled for multiple platforms, so it's easy to run on a variety of Go-supported platforms. But Dave's one needs a shell to run. Gox supports compiling in parallel, but Dave simply compiles it sequentially. The Gox also makes it very easy to use the built-in filtering tools for the built-in arch system.
• GOXC: It is a feature-rich tool that can compile system projects, upload binaries, generate download pages, and so on, compared to a slightly weaker Gox in cross-compiling two-yuan files. But Gox can compile the project in parallel, and GOXC cannot. Gox also does not enforce a format that specifies the output when compiling a two-metafile file.

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