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Cool! What does building for cross platform look like? Would love if there was a command that produced my MacOs .app and Windows exe without me having to dive

• da_rob 2y ago
  The backends (FLTK/Gocoa) are using CGo, which currently does not support cross-compiling as far as I know. So you still need to have a build pipeline with multiple operating systems, signing/notarization tools, etc. :(
  • scosman 2y ago
    Too bad. I swear half the electron apps use it for ease of Xplatform build. I’d love something like this for giving my CLIs UIs.
  • mappu 2y ago
    You can cross-compile Cgo, you "just" need a C compiler and linker that works for the target platform. osxcross, xgo have some or maybe you can set CC=zig cc. For macOS you need signing/notarization tools either when building natively or when cross-compiling, it's not any different. `rcodesign` has made this process much easier in recent years.
    • apitman 2y ago
      +1 for `CC=zig cc`. Feels like magic
• felipefar 2y ago
  That'd be amazing not only for go apps but for software built on other languages as well. I'd pay for a good, straightforward build packing + crash reporting + autoupdater solution for my apps.