DEPRECATED

This tool will no longer be maintained as I made a new one with all the functionality from this + a lot of new stuff and with much better cli support. https://github.com/checkm4ted/growl

gob: go cross-platform build tool

What is gob? gob is a small (<2MB) cli tool to make it easier to cross-build in go. Instead of having to set your env variables every time, specially annoying in windows, you just do gob --os=linux or the target OS you want (as long as it is supported by the golang compiler)

Features

1. Easy cross compile without env variables
2. List available OSs and architectures
3. Shorter than go build ., just run gob
4. Only 2MB on windows!

Install:

1. Run go install github.com/checkm4ted/gob/v2@master

Usage:

gob --help

Commands:
	--help: show this help
    --os: set target platform OS
    --arch: set target platform CPU architecture
    --out: set output file
    --cgo: enable cgo
    --light: sets -w and -s ldflags
    --ldflags: set linker flags
    --env: set other env vars
    --list-os: list available OS
    --list-arch: list available CPU architectures
    Example:
    gob --os=linux --arch=amd64 --out=linux_amd64 main.go

Note: use --light AFTER --ldflags, else it won't be affected.

If you just wanna build your project to the default platform, you can just do this:
gob
This will execute go build . under the hood.

To build to a different platform in go, you have to set GOOS and GOARCH env variables first, which is somewhat easy in linux, but in windows it's really annoying. With gob you just need to pass the arguments
gob --os=linux. If you don't specify the arch or OS it will use the current env values you have already set.

Why?

To learn to make a CLI tool and save some minutes of my time in the future

Requirements:

You need to have go installed as this tool is NOT A COMPILER, it calls go build, this just facilitates the cross platform options