Google´s GO language left out Windows target developers, for now…

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As soon as I heard the news, I got my hands on the (now) Google´s GO language. Tried it on my linux box (not VM) running openSUSE.
Installation run clean and in no time I was out building little snippets with in.
Albeit some comments I read on the net, I thought – why don´t I try this on the windows box. Back to the GO site, I realized there were no instructions for installing it on the MS OS.
Two alternatives, I thought: CYGWIN or MINGW?
Picked the first one because it was already on my windows box and where I have already built some gcc/g++ projects before.
Set the environment, got the source code there…
It didn´t build off the checked out version. Got some build errors which would require some por needed.
On my way to the GO-NUTS mailing list, I found there were already some threads discussing that possibilities.
According to that mailing list, binaries generated by GO on windows wouldn´t run either because Go compilers will still be generating ELF or Mach binaries, incompatible with Windows.
Anyway the pressure made by developers for getting a Windows version of GO compiler is high so I would we´ll have news on that side real soon.

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