We've gotten nowhere on this despite trying. Installing GO on windows went fine, based on what Ian suggested, but specifying GOOS=nsx fails immediately as being unrecognized (rather obvious). The archictture is not a powerPC, so I'm not sure why I would start there - it is a big-endian x86.
On Wednesday, 13 May 2020 11:33:00 UTC-4, Bruno Albuquerque wrote: > > Now you create your branch or whatever of the Go code and start porting it > to your platform. As a first step, you will probably want to add the new > nsx GOOS. Then you use your go1.14.2 installation to compile it (with > bootstarp.sh) setting GOOS=nsx for cross compiling. Something like this: > > GOOS=nsx GOARCH=ppc64 bootstrap.bash > > That will not work at first. Now you have to make it work, which *IS* the > porting process. > > Eventually you will be able to compile everything and generate a go > toolchain for your platform. At that point you will copy the generated > files to the target platform and test it. > > That will most likely fail in your first attempt. Then go back, fix what > you think is broken and try again. > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 8:11 AM Randall Becker <the....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tuesday, 12 May 2020 20:02:01 UTC-4, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 2:17 PM Randall Becker <the....@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > On Tuesday, 12 May 2020 16:55:54 UTC-4, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >>> >> >>> >> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 1:11 PM Randall Becker <the....@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >> > >>> >> > I have the go repository with release-branch.go1.4 checked out on a >>> Windows/cygwin64 installation. Looking for the bootstrap.bash and not >>> finding one in that branch. Assuming that my eventual target will be called >>> nsx (rather the standard name for other open source projects), would this >>> be amd64 as a starting point, or does that not matter? Not sure about the >>> next step. make.bat to build for Windows first? >>> >> >>> >> The only reason to use go1.4 is to use it to build a newer version of >>> >> Go, ideally the current version. Once you've built the current >>> >> version, use that for everything else, and set your go1.4 build aside >>> >> unless and until you need to build Go from scratch again. >>> >> >>> >> Yes, I assume that you would use amd64 as a starting point, since >>> your >>> >> target is 64-bit x86 based >>> > >>> > >>> > So if I get this, build go1.4 from source under Windows, and >>> bootstrap.bash (but that does not exist in the branch), with the GOOS=nsx >>> and GOARCH=amd64, then build within the created tree using the cross >>> compilers. Then build the newest on the target platform using the go1.4 >>> cross compiled version. >>> > >>> > Still wondering what to use for bootstrap.bash, though. >>> >>> No, build Go1.4 from source on Windows. Use that to build Go 1.14.2 >>> (say) on Windows, as described at >>> https://golang.org/doc/install-source.html. Then use Go 1.14.2 with >>> bootstrap.bash. Go 1.14.2 comes with bootstrap.bash. >>> >>> Once you have Go 1.14.2, throw away Go1.4 and never use it again. The >>> only reason to use Go1.4 is to build a newer version of Go. Once >>> you've done that, use the newer version of Go for everything. >>> >>> For that matter, you can just download Go 1.14.2 for Windows. Go 1.4 >>> is there for people who want to bootstrap from source rather than rely >>> on downloaded binaries. >>> >>> Ian >>> >> >> I have Go 1.14.2 installed and working under Windows. Not sure the next >> step. Sorry, I was assuming a source build, so I'm a bit clueless. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golan...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/708b93b8-6aea-4339-85bb-06a69a32a481%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/708b93b8-6aea-4339-85bb-06a69a32a481%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/948552b5-2d87-41ea-8dff-50eb840ce134%40googlegroups.com.
