Summary
In this chapter, you learned what the GOOS and GOARCH environment variables are and how you can use them, as well as build tags, to customize builds based on the operating system, architecture, and levels. These environment variables help you to learn more about the environment you’re building in and possibly understand why a build may have trouble executing on another platform.
There are also two ways to compile an application – building or installing. In this chapter, we discussed how to build or install the application and what the difference is. The same flags are available for each command, but we discussed how to build or install on each of the major operating systems using the Makefile. However, this also showed how large the Makefile can become!
Finally, we learned how to create a simple script to run in Darwin, Linux, or Windows to generate all the builds needed for all the major operating systems. You learned how to write both a bash and PowerShell...
