On Sun, 20 Sep 2026, Niels M?ller Larsen wrote:
> I have been playing with gui programming to make some non web gui interfaces
> for students.
>
> I started witk Python and tkinter, and I have a prototype.
> Now I wanted a similar thing with the Go language.
>
> To start I have taken a demo hello world off the modernc.org/tk9.0 website
> just to check.
> It gives the following disappointing result:
>
> $ cat guitest10.go
> package main
>
> import tk "modernc.org/tk9.0"
>
> func main() {
> tk.Pack(
> tk.TButton(
> tk.Txt("Hello, TK!"),
> tk.Command(func() {
> tk.Destroy(tk.App)
> })),
> tk.Ipadx(10), tk.Ipady(5), tk.Padx(15), tk.Pady(10),
> )
> tk.App.Wait()
> }
> nml ~/golang/goto/guitk
> $ go run guitest10.go
> # github.com/ebitengine/purego
> ../../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/ebitengine/[email protected]/struct_amd64.go:12:46:
> undefined: syscall15Args
>
> I am on go 1.26.2
>
> I hope someone has a hint for me.
>
> /Niels
>
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github.com/ebitengine/purego
Isn't supported on OpenBSD? (don't think it is)
If you want to build apps with a GUI for Go, you might be better
off using Fyne.
