在Windows计算机上运行IDE，但在Linux计算机上测试/运行应用程序？

Question

I'm doing my first steps with Go.

My workstation is on Windows and I'm using JetBrains IDE for development. Usually, I have mounted network disk (via SSH) to Linux machine. This environment it is pretty comfortable for coding and debugging with interpreted languages like PHP, Javascript (for Node), Python. But it is absolutely ugly for compiled languages like Go.

To write Go code I'm using the Go plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. Is it possible to define a remote Go compiler for this plugin (will run it on remote Linux machine)?

Answer 1

Since Go is a compiled language, this kind of development setup is not as easy as with scripting languages. To compile a Linux binary under Windows, you have to set up a cross compilation environment. The binary packages you can download from golang.org only support the platforms they run on (i.e. the Windows compiler only produces Windows binaries), so you'll have to compile Go from source. This blog post gives a good introduction to cross compiling - make sure to also read the "caveats" section, just in case these apply to your situation. After building Go as described in the article, you will have "clones" of the "go" tool named "go-linux-amd64" ("go-[os]-[architecture]") which you can use to compile binaries for other platforms.

Edit: Dave Cheney has written another blog post on the much improved cross compilation available in Go 1.5 (which is due in August).