purego
Oct 20, 2023
https://github.com/ebitengine/purego
A library for calling C functions from Go without Cgo.
The Ebitengine game engine was ported to use only Go on Windows. This enabled cross-compiling to Windows from any other operating system simply by setting
GOOS=windows. The purego project was born to bring that same vision to the other platforms supported by Ebitengine.
- Simple Cross-Compilation: No C means you can build for other platforms easily without a C compiler.
- Faster Compilation: Efficiently cache your entirely Go builds.
- Smaller Binaries: Using Cgo generates a C wrapper function for each C function called. Purego doesn't!
- Dynamic Linking: Load symbols at runtime and use it as a plugin system.
- Foreign Function Interface: Call into other languages that are compiled into shared objects.