This article is republished at rakyll.org, read it there. Note: This article extends Dave Cheney’s Go 1.5 cross compilers post. Cross compilers got easier with Go 1.5. You don’t have to bootstrap the standard library and toolchain as you used to do prior to 1.5. If cgo is not requiredThe go tool won’t require any bootstrapping if cgo is not required. That allows you to target the following program