Apple M1 chip based computers

[Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan]

Hi All,

Sorry if this has been discussed and I missed it. I have a quick question.

Does Go have native support for Apple M1 chip?

Regards

dharani

[silas poulson]

>Does Go have native support for Apple M1 chip?

Earlier discussion about Apple’s other architecture changes:
<https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/GM-P_Ydqal0/m/UhdqIvqWBAAJ>
Imagine some work will need to be done - although given release news about
including transforming app uncertain how much.

Probably compiling from sources should work, but we’ll have to see as
machines become available to the community

Silas

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[Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan]

Thank you. Let me check the thread.

Is it correct to say, for sure at least cross-compiling from, say x86-64 ubuntu, would produce native M1 chip executable for Go programs?

Regards

dharani

[Ian Lance Taylor]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:13 PM Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
<vdha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you. Let me check the thread.
>
> Is it correct to say, for sure at least cross-compiling from, say x86-64 ubuntu, would produce native M1 chip executable for Go programs?

Assuming the M1 is Apple's version of the arm64, then Go will support
the platform as of the upcoming 1.16 release.

Cross-compiling from a GNU/Linux system should work fine as usual for
a pure Go program that does not use cgo.

Ian

[silas poulson]

Further investigation https://github.com/golang/go/issues/38485 appears so?

Don't know properly - fairly new to Go