CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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TechChain
TechChain

Reputation: 8944

Creating and running a Go build for Mac only

I am into a situation in which I have to run a Go build on macOS/OS X. The build will be generated from the Linux operating system, and that build I have to run on macOS/OS X.

I have tried to generate a cross-platform build for Mac using the below command and build is generated.

env GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build

This generated a Go build but I move this build to Mac it shows .dms file extension.

Now I have two questions:

Upvotes: 13

Views: 29022

Answers (1)

Nebril
Nebril

Reputation: 3273

Since your binary will target OS X, you need to set GOOS to darwin, so your command will be:

env GOOS=darwin GOARCH=amd64 go build

Documentation on compiler environment variables is in Optional environment variables.

To run the binary on Mac, you need to make sure that binary is executable:

chmod +x path-to-binary

And then run it in Terminal:

path-to-binary

Upvotes: 30

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