Specify outname name of binary

[keithpitt]

With go build I can specify -o to customize the name of the binary it builds:

go build -o my-awesome-project

Is there a way to achieve this with goxc? (Apologies for the silly question!)

[laher]

Hi Keith: not a silly question!

I've been meaning to implement this for ages, as a 'text/template'. It needs to be a template because it needs to produce different file paths for each platform.

I've started work on it, and the default template looks like this:

{{.Version}}{{.PS}}{{.Os}}_{{.Arch}}{{.PS}}{{.AppName}}{{.Ext}}

So, you can just change it to -xt="blah{{.Ext}}" and then it will just create it as blah (or blah.exe for windows)

Would that work for you?

I'll let you know once it's ready. Cheers

[laher]

Hi, for the moment you have control over that to some extent (you can
override the 'GOPATHPART/bin/src-xc' with the -d option, and 'unknown'
(i.e. the package version) with the -pv option:

goxc -d destination/dir -pv 0.0.1 xc

This will mean it ends up inside destination/dir/0.0.1 (then e.g.
.../windows_386/)

Basically I'd still recommend putting your app into its own directory.
That's where goxc expects it to be, and if you ever want your app to be
go-gettable, then it would make sense for you to do that.

BTW, I'll finish & release the new features off as soon as I get my hands
on some time. About 2 more hours should do it. Hopefully this weekend.

On Feb 17, 2014 11:25 AM, "Alex Casanova" notifications@github.com wrote:

@laher https://github.com/laher is this something I can change
currently? Right now the output gos to $GOPATH/bin/src-xc/unknown. Is it
possible to output to a different directory?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/33#issuecomment-35218247
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[laher]

This is now done. Please update (go get -u), test and let me know.

You can use -o, but be awaer that this is a template: the default template is as follows: -o="{{.Dest}}{{.PS}}{{.Version}}{{.PS}}{{.Os}}_{{.Arch}}{{.PS}}{{.AppName}}{{.Ext}}".

You can just specify a plain-text value for -o, but I wouldn't recommend that unless you specify a single platform e.g. goxc -o=myapp.exe -bc=windows,386 xc - otherwise you'll overwrite the file. Note that I'll put in validation to prevent this overwriting in future versions.

Note also that -o can be defined in your json config as OutPath (or via the 'write config' option goxc -wc -o=XXXXX).
There will be more to follow on this tack, but for now this should give the flexibility you were asking for.

Rgds,

[sanbornm]

I also wanted this feature. I just updated goxc and tested this and can confirm this works for me!

Thanks,

[laher]

sweet, thanks for letting me know. Closing