[orochimaaru]

So you can’t pull in c libraries built for different distributions and expect this to work.

If you use pure go, things are portable. The moment you use C API, that portability doesn’t exist. This should be apparent.

[jeremyjh]

My assumption was that they were using a C API just from reading the headline. I don't use Go but these sorts of problems are common to any project doing that in just about any language.