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Andrew Williams
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Andrew Williams graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2003 with a bachelor's degree, with honors, in computer science. After university, he went to work as a software engineer and has gained over 15 years of commercial software development experience across a variety of programming languages, including Java, C, Objective-C, and Go. Andrew has spent many years working as a CTO with many early-stage and growing software start-ups. He has been a core developer in large open source projects, including Enlightenment, EFL, and Maven, as well as involved in maintaining various community websites and tutorials. Andrew's passion for building tools and services that make software development simpler led him to start authoring books on the subject.
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Using fyne-cross

To make it easier to manage the various development environments and toolchains required for cross-compiling a project, we can use the fyne-cross command. This cross-compiling utility uses Docker containers to download and run the development tools of different operating systems, right from your favorite desktop computer.

Installing fyne-cross

Before you can install fyne-cross, you will need a recent version of Go (at least 1.13) and must have Docker installed. On macOS and Windows, there is a Docker Desktop application that can help you manage your Docker setup, while on Linux, most distributions have a docker package readily available. More information about working with Docker is available in Chapter 9, Bundling Resources and Preparing for Release.

Once Docker has been installed, you can use the standard Go tools to install fyne-cross. The following command will be sufficient:

$ go get github.com/fyne-io/fyne-cross

The fyne-cross binary will be installed...

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Andrew Williams graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2003 with a bachelor's degree, with honors, in computer science. After university, he went to work as a software engineer and has gained over 15 years of commercial software development experience across a variety of programming languages, including Java, C, Objective-C, and Go. Andrew has spent many years working as a CTO with many early-stage and growing software start-ups. He has been a core developer in large open source projects, including Enlightenment, EFL, and Maven, as well as involved in maintaining various community websites and tutorials. Andrew's passion for building tools and services that make software development simpler led him to start authoring books on the subject.
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