CGo without a toolchain

[Lorenz Bauer]

Hi,

The recent Compiler and runtime meeting notes mention a tantalizing "CGo without C toolchain", but I've not been able to find any details. Is there a place I could read up about this?

Best

Lorenz

[Keith Randall]

I don't know if there's any particular issue for you to read, unfortunately. Historically, cgo has been hard with Windows because it's tricky to install a C toolchain.

I believe the idea here is to have a .syso or .dll with the C code (produced in whatever way you desire) and have the Go runtime able to call into that C code.

It would require some sort of prototype information in addition to the code blob itself.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9306 contains some discussions about this.

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