Sharing Golang packages to C and Go

The latest Go 1.5 version is out. As part of the new features, Go compiler can compile packages as a shared libraries. It accepts -buildmode argument that determines how a package is compiled. These are the following options: archive: Build the listed non-main packages into .a files. Packages named main are ignored. c-archive: Build the listed main package, plus all packages it imports, into a C archive file. c-shared: Build the listed main packages, plus all packages that they import, into C shared libraries....

August 23, 2015 · 4 min · Svetlin Ralchev