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This confuses me a bit, but I honestly have not spent a ton of time with Go, so perhaps you can explain. How exactly do you get simple cross compiling with OpenSSL using Go? Once you use an external library don't you lose all of Go's cross compiling simplicity?


In my understanding, in the usual case, you don't use OpenSSL. You use https://golang.org/pkg/crypto/tls/.


Yup, as Steve mentions, it's builtin. So in short, it's never even on my radar.

I really like Rust, but compiling OpenSSL was a huge headache for me. One of those growing pains i felt like.


FWIW I never bothered to compile OpenSSL; I just installed it and link to it.

Can't wait until we can just use ring everywhere, though.




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