Re: Golang for aarch64

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

Ronald Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>I have a Pinebook running 9.0_BETA. I pulled in the Q2 pkgsrc since the
>Q3 causes issues. When I try to “make” go112 (or any go) I get a message
>that go is not available for aarch64. The message is plain enough :) but
>my sheepish question would be, will golang be available for aarch64?

I think you will need to direct the question to the package maintainer,
who may not read this list.

My guess would be that the problem is that Go 1.12 is written in Go
itself.

The pkgsrc build route is to build Go 1.4, which is written in C, then
use that to build the later version. Go 1.4 will only build for i386
amd64 and arm, not aarch64.

There may be alternative ways of cross-compiling to aarch64.