How do you set the application icon in golang?

Question

I\'ve just created my first go application on Windows.

How do I give it an icon?

There doesn\'t seem to be any build flags to do this, and I know golang doesn\'t

Answer 1

The topic is long time, in fact mingw is only requirement, we don't need 3rd party dependency. In addition, resource file *.rc is mandatory for win32 executable application. At last, you can find the demo in rc-demo

1) Install mingw using Chocolatey: choco install mingw

2) Create main.exe.manifest file

3) Create main.rc file

100 ICON    "main.ico"
100 24      "main.exe.manifest"
101 RCDATA  "content.zip"

4) Build

In git-bash windows perform the following command: windres -o main-res.syso main.rc && go build -i