🚀 New Blog Post: Distributing C Artifacts for Go Modules

[muscariello]

Building Go modules with CGO dependencies? You've probably hit the distribution wall.

Our latest blog post shares how we solved this for the SLIM messaging library:

✅ Static linking for zero runtime dependencies
✅ GitHub Releases (not Git repos) for large binaries
✅ One-time setup tool for developers
✅ Support for 7 platforms including musl variants

Key insight: GitHub's 100MB limit + go get's LFS incompatibility + go get's 500MB hard limit = you CAN'T distribute through Git repos.

We show you the alternative that works.

Read the full post: https://blogs.agntcy.org/technical/2026/01/20/distributing-c-artifacts-for-go-modules.html

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