I really like that go can produce static executables which do not require any dynamic libraries; this is especially useful for sysadmin tools. Metrix is one such tool — it is a single executable which is able to gather a variety of metrics and send them to different aggregators (by default it is sent to …
Category Archive: golang
Sep 28
Go executables are statically linked, except when they are not.
Generally GO executables are advertised as statically linked.
And they are, mostly, except for those times where they aren’t.
This is about one of those times, and what I discovered in the process.