Some progress. I've managed to build 1.14.4 using the Windows GO implementation. The trouble I was having was using cygwin64. After figuring that part out...
I checked out a new branch from release_go1.14 named nonstop_port Then ran GOARCH=amd64 GOOS=nsx bootstrap.bash which failed because I am using cygwin64, but then ran make.bat from inside ../../go-nsx-amd64-bootstrap That installed a go binary in go-nsx-amd64-bootstrap/bin This still used the whatever compiler it chose to use, presumably gcc-generated code, but the executable will not run on the NonStop platform at all. The key here is that I need to use c99 for cross-compilation. Where do I go next, please? On Wednesday, 27 May 2020 08:01:17 UTC-4, Randall Becker wrote: > > 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> 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. 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