Conditional linkage generally refers to the inclusion or exclusion of certain pieces of code or libraries during the build process.
In Go, we use build tags to achieve the same.
Here’s the current list, grouped by category.
Supported backends
| build tag |
comment |
aws |
Include support for AWS S3 |
azure |
Include support for Azure Blob Storage |
gcp |
Include support for Google Cloud Platform |
ht |
Include support for a custom ht:// backend |
oci |
Include support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) |
Debug & development
| build tag |
comment |
debug |
Include debug-related code and assertions |
deadbeef |
DEADBEEF freed memsys buffers |
StatsD
Deprecation notice: StatsD is deprecated. All support for StatsD will be completely removed by Fall 2025.
| build tag |
comment |
statsd |
Deprecated: build with legacy StatsD support instead of Prometheus |
Open telemetry
| build tag |
comment |
oteltracing |
Include support for OpenTelemetry tracing |
Intra-cluster transport
| build tag |
comment |
nethttp |
Use net/http for intra-cluster transport (the default is fasthttp) |
fs.Walk from the standard library
| build tag |
comment |
stdlibwalk |
Instead of godirwalk use filepath.WalkDir from the standard library |