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dazzling-petabyte-91122
05/10/2022, 1:28 PMTrying to find info but coming up short. Is there a way to pass ldflags to the Go backend like with pants v1?
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fast-nail-55400
05/10/2022, 1:29 PMWhat’s the use case? cgo?
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dazzling-petabyte-91122
05/10/2022, 1:58 PMcgo and passing variable overrides
but most importantly, trying to just create a statically linked binary
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fast-nail-55400
05/10/2022, 1:59 PMThe v2 Go backend does not currently support cgo. https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/14338
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dazzling-petabyte-91122
05/10/2022, 1:59 PMok
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fast-nail-55400
05/10/2022, 2:00 PMI had started work on cgo support, but all it is currently is a very messy in-progress local branch.
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dazzling-petabyte-91122
05/10/2022, 2:00 PMah ok. Is there a way to create statically linked binaries?
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fast-nail-55400
05/10/2022, 2:00 PMAnd working on that branch has stalled since it is not currently a part of any of my current priorities.
Re linker flags, the Go backend does not currently provide a way to set them. Adding them is straight-forward enough to do for a suitably motivated contributor since it would just involve adding an option and then using that option in the applicable invocation of
go tool linkd
dazzling-petabyte-91122
05/10/2022, 2:03 PMok sounds good, thanks!
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fast-nail-55400
05/10/2022, 2:04 PMso if you want to be that “suitably motivated contributor”, let me know and I can point at what changes to Pants are necessary.
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