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Quick start

$ rm -f tinyhelloworld
$ docker build -t build-go-tinyhelloworld . && docker run -v "$(pwd):/project" build-go-tinyhelloworld
$ stat -c %s ./tinyhelloworld
91
$ ./tinyhelloworld
Hello, world!

OR

$ rm -f tinyhelloworld
$ make all
$ stat -c %s ./tinyhelloworld
91
$ ./tinyhelloworld
Hello, world!

Hexdump

$ hexdump -C tinyhelloworld 
00000000  7f 45 4c 46 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01  |.ELF............|
00000010  02 00 03 00 00 00 00 01  2e 00 00 01 04 00 00 00  |................|
00000020  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 20 00 01 00 e8 07  |.......... .....|
00000030  00 00 00 31 c0 31 db 40  cd 80 53 6a 04 58 31 db  |...1.1.@..Sj.X1.|
00000040  43 6a 0e 5a b9 4d 00 00  01 cd 80 5b c3 48 65 6c  |Cj.Z.M.....[.Hel|
00000050  6c 6f 2c 20 77 6f 72 6c  64 21 0a                 |lo, world!.|
0000005b

Comments

elf.asm is just ELF-headers and a wrapper to call the main().

The binary could be even less if we place our useful data right into the ELF headers (see an example).

See also

• Using Rust to make a 137-byte static AMD64 Linux binary.
• A "hello, world" in a 62-byte ELF using NASM.

Why is Go binary so big

A collection of articles explains some details about Go:

• Go language goroutine scheduler initialization