This is a Debian source package that builds CGO-enabled runtime libraries for architectures other than the host architecture and installs those into GOROOT. Golang sources are not included -- the source code shipped as part of the golang-src package is used instead.
This allows for cross-building binaries for Linux and Windows platforms, including CGO support, as requested in #776401. The results have been successfully tested Windwos and Linux, i386 and amd64. Testing is still needed for linux-armhf, linux-aarch64, linux-ppc64el.
This package has been successfully tested with Golang 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 packages from jessie-backports and stretch.
-- Hilko Bengen bengen@debian.org