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		est 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I'm switching to Python and actually liking it take numpy as an example, it's gfortran mixed with C. How does cgo handle that? And there's ffmpeg....

Orygin 15 days ago [–]

If you got object files you can compile whatever if you have the compiler toolset. I have made a go program that links ffmpeg and is built from linux to Windows and Macos. It was not super easy but it's doable.

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