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Comment by Kimitri | Hacker News Reader

This is interesting and very timely for me. Just this week I was building a small Go system that uses SQLite. I needed to cross-compile it for FreeBSD on a Mac and ran into issues with CGO. The easiest fix seemed to be to switch from a CGO based library to a pure Go one.

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I don't know for freebsd but at least for Linux I started using the zig toolchain and it's wonderful. https://zig.news/kristoff/building-sqlite-with-cgo-for-every...

I hit the same issue, building on mac to deploy to linux.

I added this build step before `scp`ing the binary to the server

  docker run --rm --platform=linux/amd64 \
    -v "$PWD":/app -w /app \
    golang:1.22-bullseye \
    /bin/bash -c "apt update && apt install -y gcc sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev && \
    CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o app-linux-amd64 ./cmd/main.go"

Looking at the article, I should give modernc sqlite driver a try.

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