Is gcc needed when linking as well? [cgo] [windows]

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Hi,

I want to use go-sqlite3 package and I’m using a Windows 10 (64-bit) development environment. From the project docs:

go-sqlite3 is cgo package. If you want to build your app using go-sqlite3, you need gcc. However, if you install go-sqlite3 with go install github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3, you don’t need gcc to build your app anymore.

So I installed MingW-w64 and did go install github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3

Under GOPATH\pkg\windows_amd64\github.com\mattn I can see go-sqlite3.a

When I tried to build my app that uses the go-sqlite3 package I now get the following error:
c:\go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64\link.exe: running gcc failed: exec: "gcc": executable file not found in %PATH%

please note that I explicitly removed gcc from %PATH%

My question is more to do with how the linking works than to argue the claim that gcc is not needed anymore after go install

Pieter

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I’d say those docs are wrong. If you use a package that uses cgo, you need gcc installed.

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