Go tip of the week: How to get build information of a Go binary
A really quick one this week:
You surely know the command go version
that returns the version of the installed Go command.
Here is another way of using it. If you pass the -m
flag along with the path to a Go binary, go version
lists the Go version used to build the binary, the dependencies, and the build flags used.
Like so:
> go version -m $(which gopls) 0s
/Users/christoph/.go/bin/gopls: go1.21.5
path golang.org/x/tools/gopls
mod golang.org/x/tools/gopls v0.14.2 h1:sIw6vjZiuQ9S7s0auUUkHlWgsCkKZFWDHmrge8LYsnc=
dep github.com/BurntSushi/toml v1.2.1 h1:9F2/+DoOYIOksmaJFPw1tGFy1eDnIJXg+UHjuD8lTak=
dep github.com/google/go-cmp v0.5.9 h1:O2Tfq5qg4qc4AmwVlvv0oLiVAGB7enBSJ2x2DqQFi38=
dep github.com/sergi/go-diff v1.1.0 h1:we8PVUC3FE2uYfodKH/nBHMSetSfHDR6scGdBi+erh0=
dep golang.org/x/exp/typeparams v0.0.0-20221212164502-fae10dda9338 h1:2O2DON6y3XMJiQRAS1UWU+54aec2uopH3x7MAiqGW6Y=
dep golang.org/x/mod v0.14.0 h1:dGoOF9QVLYng8IHTm7BAyWqCqSheQ5pYWGhzW00YJr0=
dep golang.org/x/sync v0.4.0 h1:zxkM55ReGkDlKSM+Fu41A+zmbZuaPVbGMzvvdUPznYQ=
dep golang.org/x/sys v0.14.0 h1:Vz7Qs629MkJkGyHxUlRHizWJRG2j8fbQKjELVSNhy7Q=
dep golang.org/x/telemetry v0.0.0-20231114163143-69313e640400 h1:brbkEFfGwNGAEkykUOcryE/JiHUMMJouzE0fWWmz/QU=
dep golang.org/x/text v0.13.0 h1:ablQoSUd0tRdKxZewP80B+BaqeKJuVhuRxj/dkrun3k=
dep golang.org/x/tools v0.14.1-0.20231114185516-c9d3e7de13fd h1:Oku7E+OCrXHyst1dG1z10etCTxewCHXNFLRlyMPbh3w=
dep golang.org/x/vuln v1.0.1 h1:KUas02EjQK5LTuIx1OylBQdKKZ9jeugs+HiqO5HormU=
dep honnef.co/go/tools v0.4.5 h1:YGD4H+SuIOOqsyoLOpZDWcieM28W47/zRO7f+9V3nvo=
dep mvdan.cc/gofumpt v0.4.0 h1:JVf4NN1mIpHogBj7ABpgOyZc65/UUOkKQFkoURsz4MM=
dep mvdan.cc/xurls/v2 v2.4.0 h1:tzxjVAj+wSBmDcF6zBB7/myTy3gX9xvi8Tyr28AuQgc=
build -buildmode=exe
build -compiler=gc
build DefaultGODEBUG=panicnil=1
build CGO_ENABLED=0
build GOARCH=arm64
build GOOS=darwin
HT to Jonathan Matthews.