Hello, I’m trying to build a go binary for a specific platform so i can build a docker image locally, how can I pass

GOOS

and

GOARCH

? I’ve seen a few people ask before but can’t see any working suggestions

Cross-compilation for Go is not currently supported. (This is a general Pants problem and not only affects the Go backend.) You could try building the go binary inside a Docker container using the

docker_environment

environment target and specifying that environment on the

go_binary

target via the

environment

field. See https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.16/docs/environments and https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.16/docs/reference-go_binary#codeenvironmentcode for more information on environments.

[ERROR] Completed: Compile with Go - (environment:linux_docker, <http://google.golang.org/grpc/internal/syscall|google.golang.org/grpc/internal/syscall>) - <http://google.golang.org/grpc/internal/syscall|google.golang.org/grpc/internal/syscall> failed (exit code 1).
gopath/pkg/mod/google.golang.org/grpc@v1.55.0/internal/syscall/syscall_linux.go:29:2: could not import <http://golang.org/x/sys/unix|golang.org/x/sys/unix> (open : no such file or directory)

Thanks i’ve made some progress now getting this error when building in docker enviornment but the go.mod has that package

It could be a bug in how package analysis and/or dependency inference is done in this case. The file missing is likely the package archive for the dependency in question.

Is there a way I can work around this for now?

No because the Go compiler expects to be supplied with the built package archives of all dependent packages.

Should i raise this as an issue in github?

yes please

@polite-nail-30687 did you ever get around to opening an issue for this?