Buildmeta

An easy way to set ldflags and retain build-time metadata that is useful for Go applications running in any environment.

Getting Started

There are already a few applications out there with canonical paths for build metadata, though none thus far is authoritative. This package takes the idea and extends it to include a CLI that knows how to set ldflags appropriately so that all your build needs is -ldflags "$(buildmeta ldflags)". There are additional options for outputting JSON metadata for e.g. static directories.

To use this, run go install github.com/andrewstuart/buildmeta/cmd/buildmeta@latest in terminal, and run buildmeta to validate output. You can also try go run github.com/andrewstuart/buildmeta/cmd/buildmeta which will both download and run this module.

go build -o app -ldflags "$(buildmeta ldflags)"