Multi architecture support

[Ravikc]

I am building a go application that depends on git2go and needs to be packaged as a docker image and will need to support linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 architectures.

Dockerfile:

FROM golang:1.17.6-alpine3.15 as builder

WORKDIR /workspace
COPY go.mod go.mod
COPY go.sum go.sum

RUN apk add --no-cache libgit2 libgit2-dev git gcc g++ pkgconfig

RUN go mod download

COPY main.go main.go

ARG TARGETARCH TARGETOS

RUN CGO_ENABLED=1 GO111MODULE=on GOOS=${TARGETOS} GOARCH=${TARGETARCH} go build -tags static,system_libgit2 -a -o gitoperations main.go

FROM alpine:3.15 as runner

WORKDIR /
COPY --from=builder /workspace/gitoperations .
ENTRYPOINT ["/gitoperations"]

Build commands:

docker buildx create --name gitops --use
docker buildx build --platform=linux/amd64,linux/arm64 --pull .

This setup works but building for the arch different from host machine's arch is extremely slow.
Examples:

1. On arm64 M1 mac (without rossetta): Building linux/arm64 executable takes ~30s and linux/amd64 takes ~300seconds.
2. On our amd64 Jenkins CI system: Building linux/arm64 executable takes 10x longer than building linux/amd64 executable.

Is there any way to speed up these build times? I suspect this slow times are because docker is using qemu to build for the different architecture and if I can somehow provide a C compiler that's able to cross-compile for both the architectures using the CC env variable then it would help bring down the build times.

But I cant seem to find any such compiler toolchain.
Thanks in advance!