Thank you, that helps. Now, as I continue to work on 'porting', I have a question. The go compiler that will be used for creating this 'bootstrap' version of go1.16 - does this come from the go1.16 windows binary or the go1.4 windows binary? I ask because I have 'produced' both of them on different directories (as I should) and wanted to make sure I set the right 'GOROOT'/'GOPATH'/'GOBIN' variables and/or PATH to be able to produce the bootstrap version.
On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 10:08:20 PM UTC+1 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 1:00 PM Shiva <emailshiva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > So I've now done the following steps as you suggested after removing all > the previous traces of Go from my machine to start from the scratch. > > > > 1. Install go1.4 > > 2. Set GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP to go1.4 > > 3. git clone go1.16 > > 4. Run make.bat to 'make' Go on windows just to confirm that it does > build fine (which it clearly does) > > > > Now, I suppose I have to 'port' the current go1.16 src folder by > creating 'nsx' files similar to 'linux'? I'm now working on them and > hopefully will be able to break some ground. > > Yes. > > > But I also have a question - I think the reason we chose to port go 1.4 > instead of the latest source is because the latest source requires a > pre-existing go compiler and Nonstop (our target) machine didn't have one. > I suppose your earlier response suggests that as long as the intermediate > system has a pre-existing go compiler that can be used, it doesn't matter > if the target environment doesn't have a Go compiler - we can still > bootstrap the latest version of the source. I just wanted to confirm this > as I continued. > > Yes. That is what bootstrap.bash is for. See the description in the > comment near the start of bootstrap.bash. > > Ian > -- 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/d1337a2d-46ee-430c-bd92-bd7f3168b28en%40googlegroups.com.
