I am writing a Go wrapper for a C library in Go. The problem is, that the C library is not available on many Linux distributions, so I want a solution where i "go get github.com/me/mylibrary" does not require anybody to have the library installed.
One solution would be to just add the source of the library into a sub directory. Then when my project is build with go get I need to automatically build this library, too. But I have no idea how I can automate this.
Alternatively I could have a script that downloads the source, extracts and builds it
But I have no Idea how to connect these build steps with the go build tool.
linking a static library is also not the easiest.
#cgo linux LDFLAGS: ./MyLib/lib/libMyLib.a -lstdc++ -lm -lX11
works as long as i build from my library, but as soon as I want to build from another project the relative path is from that project and not from my library, so it fails.