How to compile golang source code in windows

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I want to compile the source code of golang (http://golang.org/dl/go1.3.src.tar.gz). Because I want to learn the technologies of compilation, even I will modify the sources codes of go compiler. Can anyone tell me how to do it?

Attention, I just want to compile it in windows, not in linux.

Compiling Go on Windows in much more difficult than compiling it on Linux, you know? — fuz
– fuz, Commented Jun 22, 2014 at 15:54
@peterSO Typing ./all.bash into a terminal is simpler than having to install a toolchain manually as Windows does not provide one by default. — fuz
– fuz, Commented Jun 22, 2014 at 16:14

OneOfOne · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-22 16:24:26Z

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It's a little bit more complicated on windows than on Linux

You have to install the MinGW GCC tool chain and make sure you put it in your path.
- Not going into details because the official HOWTO on that link is very detailed.
Download Go's source, unpack it, open a terminal and cd path-to-go/src.
run all.bat, if all goes well you should get ALL TESTS PASSED printed out after a while.

answered Jun 22, 2014 at 16:24

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Simon Whitehead Over a year ago

I was literally doing this today and honestly - the instructions here are a perfect subset of the ones in the documentation. It literally isn't any harder than this. +1 to undo the stupid downvote.

twinj · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-23 02:54:07Z

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This works well for me. I can get both 32 bit and 64 bit go working on windows 7 and 8.1 using this method:

Go WindowsBuild

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