mitchellh/gox

Health v2 · maintenance only

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4576 stars · 347 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Gox is a simple, no-frills Go cross-compilation tool that behaves like the standard `go build` command. It parallelizes builds across multiple OS/architecture platforms and automatically sets up the cross-compilation toolchain.

Use cases

• cross-compile a Go binary for multiple operating systems at once
• build Go binaries for linux, windows, and macos in parallel
• build a Go package for a specific OS/architecture like linux/amd64
• set up the Go cross-compilation toolchain automatically
• build multiple Go packages for many platforms in one command

When to choose

• you want a dead-simple `go build` replacement that targets many platforms
• you need parallel cross-compilation without enforcing an output directory structure
• you want minimal tooling with no packaging, uploading, or release features

When to avoid

• you need release automation like building system packages, uploading binaries, or generating download pages (use goxc or goreleaser)
• you only target a single platform - plain `go build` is enough
• you need a tool under active development - the project is in maintenance mode

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

build-tool cli developer-tools developer-tools cross-platform go windows cli cross-compilation go-build parallel-builds command-line linux macos

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