Cross compilation from windows 10 to raspberry pi CGO_ENABLED = 1

Question

I wish to compile for a raspberry pi from my windows machine (much faster). Everything works if I use this command: env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=5 go build src/*.go

However, I am using go-sqlite3 which apparently requires CGO_ENABLED = 1

Binary was compiled with 'CGO_ENABLED=0', go-sqlite3 requires cgo to work. This is a stub

When I change the compilation command to env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=5 CGO_ENABLED=1 go build src/*.go I get an error on windows

$ env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=5 CGO_ENABLED=1 go build src/*.go
# runtime/cgo
cgo: exec C:\Program: exec: "C:\\Program": file does not exist

This looks like a simple fix, but I'm not very comfortable with cross compilation. I cannot find much online.

EDIT:

I moved my project around, and now I get the following error:

$ env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=5 CGO_ENABLED=1 go build src/*
# runtime/cgo
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-marm'; did you mean '-mabm'?*

I looked around online, and apparently one needs to specify the CC:

$ env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=5 CGO_ENABLED=1 CC=arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc go build src/*
# runtime/cgo
cgo: exec arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc: exec: "arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc": executable file not found in %PATH%

So, I'm moving forwards to fixing the issue, but I am not there yet.

I'll try finding how to install the gcc linux on windows and add it to PATH. However, if this is not the correct way of doing it. I'm open to some help

EDIT2

I donwloaded a tool chain from https://gnutoolchains.com/raspberry/. I copied the arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.exe to C:\Users\Me\go\bin

Now I get another error

$ env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=5 CGO_ENABLED=1 CC=arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc go build src/*
# runtime/cgo
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory

I'll keep posting my progress, but i'm sure the answer is dead simple. arf...

EDIT 3 Ok added the path to the system env and it is now found but... I now get some linker stuff issues

$ env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=5 CGO_ENABLED=1 CC=arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc go build src/*.go
# command-line-arguments
C:\Program Files\Go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64\link.exe: running arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc failed: exit status 1
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc: fatal error: -fuse-linker-plugin, but liblto_plugin-0.dll not found
compilation terminated.

Answer 1

Ok, so through the edits I showed the work.

To fix the initial problem cgo: exec C:\Program: exec: "C:\\Program": file does not exist I moved the project in the GOPATH.

To fix the first edit cgo: exec arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc: exec: "arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc": executable file not found in %PATH% I installed the toolchain from https://gnutoolchains.com/raspberry/ and made sure the C:\SysGCC\raspberry\bin is added in both the user and system variables.

To fix the second edit arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc: fatal error: -fuse-linker-plugin, but liblto_plugin-0.dll not found I installed https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-setup.exe/download and made sure that the following packets were installed

• mingw-developer-toolkit
• mingw32-base
• mingw32-gcc-g++
• msys-base I'm not sure all of them are necessary. I also made sure that C:\MinGW\bin was in both user and system variables.

I then needed to restart all the terminals I worked with, and now the command compiles correctly