Go cross-compilation with 1.5.x - output file is overridden

Question

I'm using go 1.5 and I'm cross compiling like specified here.

The problem is that when compiling the project it will override the binary the last compilation created. Moreover - I will never know which OS/ARCH the executable file that I'm running was compiled to (in any case that is not windows).

Is there a way to rename the file at compile command?

Answer 1

You could use the "-o" argument, like this:

GOOS=linux GOARCH=386 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -o test/output/myapp