how to make a package go-gettable for both inux and Windows?

[Peter Kleiweg]

I have this package that installs fine on Linux.
But when I try to install it on Windows, it won't build:

X:\>go get github.com/pebbe/isterminal
# github.com/pebbe/isterminal
C:\Go\src\pkg\github.com\pebbe\isterminal\isterminal.go:24: undefined: syscall.Termios
C:\Go\src\pkg\github.com\pebbe\isterminal\isterminal.go:25: undefined: syscall.SYS_IOCTL
C:\Go\src\pkg\github.com\pebbe\isterminal\isterminal.go:26: undefined: syscall.TCGETS
C:\Go\src\pkg\github.com\pebbe\isterminal\isterminal.go:26: not enough arguments in call to syscall.Syscall6

X:\>

So, what I need to do is change the package to have it use Linux
methods on Linux, and Windows methods on Windows, and in the
package, have a check for what platform it is runing on. But how
can I do that if it won't even build on both platforms?

I could have two separate packages, one for Linux, one for
Windows, but then I would also need two version for all packages
dependent on this package.

How do I solve this?


--
Peter Kleiweg
my Go programming cookbook: http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/go/

[Dave Cheney]

Have a look at the source for the net package. Look at the names of
the files, and the contents of the // +build tags at the top of the
files.

More information is in the "Build Constraints" section of
http://golang.org/pkg/go/build/

Cheers

Dave

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[Peter Kleiweg]

Dave Cheney schreef op de 15e dag van de wijnmaand van het jaar 2012:

> Have a look at the source for the net package. Look at the names of
> the files, and the contents of the // +build tags at the top of the
> files.

Thanks!