On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 13:23:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 03/07/2016 02:17 PM, landaire wrote:
I'd like to add that one of the things that I love about Go is
that it
is crazy easy to cross-compile. `GOOS=freebsd go build` and I
have a
FreeBSD binary sitting in my working directory, ready to send
off.
What would be some good cases for that? When I want to
cross-compile, I ssh into the target machine and build there.
-- Andrei
You can't use all target platforms as development platforms -
e.g. Apple Watch, microcontrollers, and so on. Sometimes you
don't have any other options than cross-compilation.
It is also more flexible from a DevOps perspective. You can setup
a Linux build server and use it to produce builds for several
targets.
