Make(file) alternatives

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I've seen a number of developers suggest using Makefiles to handle Go project builds (I'm learning to do this as well):

• https://github.com/mirror/make

I've also seen a number of suggestions for alternative (even Go-based) tooling.

Here are some of the tools I want to look more into:

• taskfile

  • https://taskfile.dev/
  • https://github.com/go-task/task

• taskctl

  • https://github.com/taskctl/taskctl
  • https://github.com/taskctl/taskctl/blob/master/docs/example.yaml

• mage

  • https://magefile.org/
  • https://github.com/magefile/mage

• https://github.com/rliebz/tusk

• https://github.com/casey/just

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Mixed results. So far none of the options I've tried seem to handle cross-compiling multiple cmd/app path binaries well, but I'll keep at it.

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https://sahilm.com/makefiles-for-golang/

Might just stick with make after all.

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• https://github.com/casey/just

Might give this another look as well.

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FWIW, the Terraform project uses a Makefile as the entry point and a shell script to perform the actual build:

• https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/Makefile
• https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/scripts/build.sh

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I've already gone through and tested multiple packages and I thought, created a test branch for them where I recorded the work done thus far. Digging around now I'm not finding the files; kuddos to me for stuffing them into a closest and forgetting which cobwebs they're hiding behind.

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See also atc0005/bridge#45

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I've already gone through and tested multiple packages and I thought, created a test branch for them where I recorded the work done thus far. Digging around now I'm not finding the files; kuddos to me for stuffing them into a closest and forgetting which cobwebs they're hiding behind.

Found it:

https://github.com/atc0005/bridge/tree/test-makefile-alternatives

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Relevant:

• https://github.com/atc0005/bridge/blob/141e653d9957866ddd24b65fb306a9baf0b79fed/tasks.yml
• https://github.com/atc0005/bridge/tree/test-makefile-alternatives

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• https://github.com/taskctl/taskctl/blob/master/docs/example.yaml
  • https://github.com/taskctl/taskctl/blob/9ccc4df61a65ec3dd7fa8baaac75f0a81e8bd813/docs/example.yaml
  • https://github.com/taskctl/taskctl/commit/c12c7ec8bf370f43e067c9b74ba0175dedef15c8

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Note: I'm using atc0005/bridge for further tinkering with this idea, specifically atc0005/bridge#45.

As of this writing, I used the i45-further-makefile-replacement-testing branch to do further testing with https://github.com/taskctl/taskctl (putting it on hold for now) and am just beginning to tinker with https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser.

Will test further in that direction, as the project is active and the lead developer seemed approachable in the past.