Earlier this year, Github released their workflow automation tool Actions. Github claims to provide nothing less than * world-class* CI/CD with Actions. After its release in Autumn 2019, I took the chance and migrated the multi-stage CI Pipeline of remoteAudio to Github Actions.
Now it’s time to share the good, the bad and the ugly parts of Github Actions.
One of Golang’s strengths is that it supports cross-compiling to any common Operating System and CPU architecture out of the box. However, that’s only true for projects written in pure Go. Normally that’s not a problem, but sometimes we depend on 3rd-party C libraries… and that’s when things tend to get complicated.
In this post, I will explain how you can cross-compile your cgo project for multiple operating systems and architectures in a clear and structured manner.
