From 88eb66f0c481c4cfac0a71e1c0d9e14b4a408abf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?P=C3=A9ter=20Szil=C3=A1gyi?= <peterke@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 01:31:22 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Add a simple wrapper around the docker command.

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 xgo.go | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 xgo.go

diff --git a/xgo.go b/xgo.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0d97f4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xgo.go
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+// Go CGO cross compiler
+// Copyright (c) 2014 Péter Szilágyi. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Released under the MIT license.
+
+// Wrapper around the GCO cross compiler docker container.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+)
+
+// Docker container configured for cross compilation.
+var container = "karalabe/xgo"
+
+func main() {
+	// Make sure docker is actually available on the system
+	fmt.Println("Checking docker installation...")
+	if err := run(exec.Command("docker", "version")); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to check docker installation: %v.", err)
+	}
+	// Fetch and configure the compilation settings
+	if len(os.Args) != 2 {
+		log.Fatalf("Usage: %s <go import path>", os.Args[0])
+	}
+	path := os.Args[1]
+	pwd, err := os.Getwd()
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to retrieve the working directory: %v.", err)
+	}
+	// Cross compile the requested package into the local folder
+	fmt.Println("Cross compiling", path)
+	if err := run(exec.Command("docker", "run", "-v", pwd+":/build", container, path)); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("Failed to cross compile package: %v.", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// Executes a command synchronously, redirecting its output to stdout.
+func run(cmd *exec.Cmd) error {
+	if out, err := cmd.StdoutPipe(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	} else {
+		go io.Copy(os.Stdout, out)
+	}
+	if out, err := cmd.StderrPipe(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	} else {
+		go io.Copy(os.Stderr, out)
+	}
+	return cmd.Run()
+}