From 0c4e24f3b7d5461ea65678324a770be6ce9ada39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rafael Jung <jungrafael@jungsoft.io>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 00:47:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improve docs to use go cli instead of docker

---
 README.md | 20 ++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a8689a6..f8db785 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,26 +41,18 @@ HEALTHCHECK CMD healthcheck
 
 ## Building
 
-To build it for alpine, you can use the go-alpine image, for example (alternatively, for ARM64, you can use `docker run --rm -it arm64v8/golang:1.17-alpine`):
+To build it for alpine, you can use the go-alpine image, for example (alternatively, for ARM64, you can use `docker run --rm -it arm64v8/golang:1.17-alpine`) or directly from the command line with go installed:
 
 ```bash
-docker run --rm -it --platform linux/amd64 amd64/golang:1.17-alpine
+go build healthcheck.go
 ```
 
-Then copy the go file to the running container:
-
-```bash
-docker cp healthcheck.go CONTAINER_NAME:/go/healthcheck.go
-```
+The binary will be created inside the current directory with name `healthcheck`
 
-Build it from the container
+Or alternatively for other operational systems or architectures, use respectively the envs `GOOS` and `GOARCH` (for better portability, make sure to use static linking with `CGO_ENABLED=0`):
 
 ```bash
-go build healthcheck.go
-```
+CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 go build -o healthcheck_linux_amd64 healthcheck.go
 
-And copy back the binary to the host
-
-```bash
-docker cp CONTAINER_NAME:/go/healthcheck healthcheck
+CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 go build -o healthcheck_linux_arm64 healthcheck.go
 ```