goxz

GO + X (crossbuild) + Z (zip)

Description

Just do cross building and archiving go tools conventionally

Installation

% go install github.com/Songmu/goxz/cmd/goxz@latest

Built binaries are available on gihub releases. https://github.com/Songmu/goxz/releases

Concept

• Simple and Lightweight
• Provides goxc subset
  • only provides cross building and archiving
• No older Go support
• No complicated configuration and behaivors
  • convention over configuration

Synopsis

# in your repository
% goxz -pv 0.0.1 -os=linux,darwin -arch=amd64 ./cmd/mytool [...]

# archives are built into `./goxz` directory by default (configurable by `-d` option)
%  tree ./goxz
goxz/
├── yourapp_0.0.1_darwin_amd64.zip
└── ...

Included resources

following files are included to archives automatically.

• LICENSE*
• README*
• INSTALL*
• CREDIT*
• CHANGELOG*

You can specify additional resources by using -include option.

Archive naming specification

{{Package}}_{{Version}}_{{OS}}_{{Arch}}.{{Ext}} or {{Package}}_{{OS}}_{{Arch}}.{{Ext}}

• {{Package}}
  • directory name of the project by default
  • you can specify it with -n option
• {{Version}}
  • When the version is specified by -pv option, that is contained in archive name
• {{Ext}}
  • .zip is by default on "windows" and "darwin", .tar.gz is by default on other os.
  • use -z option to use zip always to compress.
• No file naming notations are available yet
  • ref. goxc: {{.ExeName}}_{{.Version}}_{{.Os}}_{{.Arch}}{{.Ext}}

Options

• -d destination directory (./goxz by default)
• -n application name. by default the directory name is used.
• -os linux,darwin and windows by default
• -arch amd64,arm64 by default
• -pv for speicifing version (optional)
• -o output filename
  • not available with multiple package building
• -z to use zip always to compless
  • by default, zip is used on "windows and "darwin", tar.gz is used on other OS
• -include Include additional resources in archives
• -build-ldflags / -build-tags

Author

Songmu