go-inspector
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go-inspector is a utility to extract dependencies and symbols from Go binaries.
It is designed to work as a ScanCode Toolkit plugin and integrated in ScanCode.io

To install and use:

- Run ``pip install go-inspector``
- Use with ``scancode --json-pp - --go-symbol --verbose <PATH to a tree or file with Go binaries>``

The JSON output will contain various dependencies and symbols found in Go binaries if any.

A Go compiler is required to build go-inspector. Install Go from
https://go.dev/doc/install or from a package manager.

- License: Apache-2.0 AND MIT AND BSD-3-Clause WITH LicenRef-scancode-google-patent-license-golang
- Copyright (c) nexB Inc., AboutCode, Mandiant, The Go Authors, Elliot Chance and others.
- Homepage: https://github.com/aboutcode-org/go-inspector

See the libsrc/ directory for detailed license and credits for bundled third-party packages.


Development
----------------

- Install requirements and dependencies using ``make dev``
- Then ``source venv/bin/activate``

Testing:

- To run tests: ``pytest -vvs``
- To regen test fixtures: ``SCANCODE_REGEN_TEST_FIXTURES=yes pytest -vvs``
- To update the bundled GoReSym, see src/bin/update.sh

Building:

- Ensure ``make dev`` has been run, then run ``make build``

How to re-generate test binaries
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

These are compiled (and committed) from code in tests/data/basic :

- Run ``go tool dist list`` to get all possible pairs of OSes and arches to compile the binary.
- Then build a OS/arch pair like this to get compiled binaries:
  ``GOOS=<OS> GOARCH=<arch> go build -o ./tests/data/basic/app_<OS>_exe ./tests/data/main.go``
- Make a copy and run strip of the Linux executable as "app_lin_exe_stripped"


Acknowledgements, Funding, Support and Sponsoring
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This project is funded, supported and sponsored by:

- Generous support and contributions from users like you!
- the European Commission NGI programme
- the NLnet Foundation
- the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
- Google, including the Google Summer of Code and the Google Seasons of Doc programmes
- Mercedes-Benz Group
- Microsoft and Microsoft Azure
- AboutCode ASBL
- nexB Inc.



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|aboutcode|  |nexb|



This project was funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial
support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG
Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.

|ngizeroentrust| https://nlnet.nl/project/Back2source/


This project was funded through the NGI0 Core Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial
support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG
Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101092990.

|ngizerocore| https://nlnet.nl/project/Back2source-next/


This project was funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial
support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG
Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.

|ngizeroentrust| https://nlnet.nl/project/purl2all/



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