It isn't a great solution, but I currently include the built library files and necessary headers in the git repo alongside the Go code. You can see an example here https://github.com/richardwilkes/unison/tree/main/internal/skia where I include the skia library I built for use in my UI framework, unison.
The main downside of this is bloating the git repo with the binary .a and .dll files... but I've not found a better way to handle it. glfw, which unison also depends upon, does something very similar. - Rich On Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 2:58:23 AM UTC-7 Jan wrote: > hi, > > I'm developing a couple of ML framework/libraries for Go that depend on > C/C++ code. Once C-libraries dependencies are installed, the CGO > integration work great. > > Now, for end-users that just want to use these Go libraries, having to > figure out how to manually build and install those C/C++/Rust dependencies > is a hassle -- sadly each one with a different type of build system. > > I offer pre-built `.tgz` files (for a limited set of architectures) with > the required `.h` and `.a/.so` files along the releases, which facilitates. > But it's still a hassle to install -- and no auto-uninstall if someone is > no longer using the Go module. > > I was wondering if others have figured out how to handle this in a nicer > way. Is there a recommended way to distribute prebuilt CGO dependencies ? > > I like how Python wheels (`.whl` files) solve the issue, by including the > pre-built libraries in a sub-directory of the python library installation. > I was hoping there would be a similar way (maybe with a separate tool) to > integrate with `go.mod`. > > Any pointers, thoughts or suggestions are very appreciated. > > Thanks! > Jan > > ps: While searching I saw similar questions, but none that exactly > answered this aspect of distribution. Just in case, apologies if it's a > duplicate question. > -- 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/3b03b9e1-655e-452a-9b97-e9471b9b9dc1n%40googlegroups.com.
