编程方式调用Go工具

Question

Is there a way to call the Go tools (like go build) programmatically from within another Go program with a library call and to get more structured output compared to the text output from the command line invocation?

Answer 1

Within another go program it is possible to execute console commands using the os/exec package like so:

func main (){
   cmd := exec.Command("go run lib/main.go")
   if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil{
       log.Fatal(err)
   }
}

I don't see this being very useful though.