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Minimum Requirements

Operating Systems

Linux

Kernel version 2.6.23 or later. [This depends on architecture though, we need to have specific builder for this.] Linux/ARMv5 requires much newer kernels, at least v3.1 (for __kuser_cmpxchg64).

We don't support CentOS 5. Kernel is too old (2.6.18).

For little-endian MIPS64, kernel version 4.1 is known to fail, and 4.8 works.

Windows

Windows XP (w/ Service Pack 2) or higher. But we don't currently (2016-09-23) have a Windows XP running. That is golang/go#10267

We run builders testing Go on Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition. That is basically Windows 7 or above.

macOS (née OS X, aka Darwin)

macOS Sierra (10.12) requires Go 1.7.1. We have not yet (as of 2016-09-23) backported the time system call fixes to any earlier Go versions. See golang/go#16352.

Go only supports OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or newer. We only have builders for 10.8, 10.10, and 10.11 as of 2016-09-23.

Go tip doesn't compile on OS X 10.7 (Lion) but binaries MAY work there. Maybe. No builders, no promises. We don't recommend it.

OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is explicitly unsupported. See golang/go#9511

OpenBSD

The current officially supported -stable versions only. See https://golang.org/wiki/OpenBSD for details.

DragonFly BSD

Generally only the latest release version only. We have a builder, but it's not the most stable of our ports.

FreeBSD

FreeBSD 8 and up according to https://golang.org/doc/install, but I suspect we might need something newer than 8. We only run builders testing FreeBSD 10.1 and 11.0.

Native Client

pepper_39 or newer.

Solaris

illumos (former OpenSolaris 10) based distributions or Oracle Solaris 11+.

Architectures

amd64

All 64-bit x86 processors.

386

See https://golang.org/doc/install/source#environment

  • GO386=387: run on any Pentium MMX or later processor.
  • GO386=sse2: run on any processor with at least SSE2 (the default).

arm

See https://golang.org/doc/install/source#environment

  • GOARM=5: use software floating point; when CPU doesn't have VFP co-processor
  • GOARM=6: use VFPv1 only; default if cross compiling; usually ARM11 or better cores (VFPv2 or better is also supported)
  • GOARM=7: use VFPv3; usually Cortex-A cores

arm64

All ARMv8-A processors.

ppc64 (big endian)

POWER5 and above. Starting with Go 1.9, only POWER8 and above are supported.

ppc64le (little endian)

POWER8 and above.

mips64 (big endian)

MIPS III or higher. Builder is using MIPS64r2.

mips64le (little endian)

MIPS III or higher in little endian mode. Builders are using Loongson 2E/2F.

s390x

z196+

mips (big endian) and mipsle (little endian)

MIPS32r1, with FPU or kernel FPU emulation