linux build problem for golang application

[Tsovak]

Hey,

I have a repository https://github.com/Tsovak/go-test-parser where I'm using goreleaser for different OS.
the build and release have done successfully for Linux, windows and darwin, but only the Linux binary working not correct.

Inside the binary, I store the html file, so running in Linux says that the file does not exist.
I cloned the repository to Linux machine and build with the command make build (go build -ldflags "" -o bin/go-test-parser cmd/go-test-parser/*.go ), and all works correctly.

I think the problem with goreleaser because build on the Linux machine working correctly.

So the .goreleaser.yml is

# This is an example goreleaser.yaml file with some sane defaults.
# Make sure to check the documentation at http://goreleaser.com
builds:
  - id: "go-runner"
    main: ./cmd/go-runner
    binary: go-runner
    env:
      - CGO_ENABLED=0
    goos:
      - linux
      - windows
      - darwin
    goarch:
      - amd64
      - arm
      - arm64
  - id: "go-test-parser"
    main: ./cmd/go-test-parser
    binary: go-test-parser
    env:
      - CGO_ENABLED=0
    goos:
      - linux
      - windows
      - darwin
    goarch:
      - amd64
      - arm
      - arm64
archives:
  - replacements:
      darwin: Darwin
      linux: Linux
      windows: Windows
      386: i386
      amd64: x86_64
    name_template: "{{ .ProjectName }}_{{ .Tag }}_{{ .Os }}_{{ .Arch }}"
checksum:
  name_template: "checksums.txt"
snapshot:
  name_template: "{{ .Tag }}-next"
changelog:
  sort: asc
  filters:
    exclude:
      - '^docs:'
      - '^test:'

with Github actions

name: goreleaser

on:
  push:
    branches-ignore:
      - "**"
    tags:
      - "v*.*.*"

env:
  GO_VERSION: 1.14

jobs:
  goreleaser:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: set up go ${{env.GO_VERSION}}
        uses: actions/setup-go@v1
        with:
          go-version: ${{env.GO_VERSION}}
        id: go
      - name: Check out code into the Go module directory
        uses: actions/checkout@master
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Go mod cache setup
        uses: actions/cache@v2
        with:
          path: ${{env.GOPATH}}/pkg/mod
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-go-${{ hashFiles('**/go.sum') }}
          restore-keys: |
            ${{ runner.os }}-go-
      - name: Run GoReleaser
        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v2
        with:
          version: latest
          args: release --rm-dist
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

[caarlos0]

Are you embedding the files in your go code? AFAIK, for that to work you need to embed the files in your go code with something like go.rice, statik or something like that.

It probably works locally because you build and run in the folder your code is, so the paths are there, if you move the binary to another folder and run it, it will probably fail too.

[Tsovak]

yes, I'm embedding the files in my go code by github.com/gobuffalo/packr.
I do not agree with you about local working because of local build, because I can build to binary and run it in the docker container and it works perfectly.

[caarlos0]

in that case, either the image has the files or you are embedding them properly before building the image...

goreleaser will not run go generate for you, so if you need that, you need to add it to your global before hooks or somewhere else in your CI flow...

[Tsovak]

@caarlos0 thanks for your reply and suggestion. I just run go build ... without any generated files before. That's why the global hooks don't need. maybe the packr working wrong. I'm going to try the go.rice as you recommend.

[caarlos0]

maybe some caching too... have you tried in a clean environment?

anyway, running packr on the before hook should work too...

you can also run goreleaser with debug enable and see exactly the go build command it is running