# Who's building syncthing, out there?
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/whos-building-syncthing-out-there/419
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [June 18, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/whos-building-syncthing-out-there/419 "2014-06-18T23:08:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/whos-building-syncthing-out-there/419/1 "2014-06-18T23:08:13Z")
I’d like to hear from people who are building and distributing syncthing but not using the included `build.sh` - what are you doing, and why doesn’t the “standard” build work for you? Can we make it work out of the box? I’m asking because I notice in [http://data.syncthing.net/](http://data.syncthing.net/) that there are a bunch of instances reporting themselves as “0.8.15” instead of “v0.8.15” as the standard build does.
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### Author:  [@Nutomic](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Nutomic)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/whos-building-syncthing-out-there/419/2 "2014-06-19T16:31:56Z")
[YtvwlD uses gcc-go for Launchpad builds](https://github.com/Nutomic/syncthing-android/issues/12#issuecomment-45091273)
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/whos-building-syncthing-out-there/419/3 "2014-06-19T22:00:37Z")
Right, yeah, I never could figure out why gccgo was involved…
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### Author:  [@Nutomic](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Nutomic)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/whos-building-syncthing-out-there/419/4 "2014-06-19T22:25:32Z")
At least it can build a go project as a git submodule (with tons of exports, but still). Unfortunately, the cross compile seems really complicated.
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### Author:  [@YtvwlD](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/YtvwlD)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/whos-building-syncthing-out-there/419/5 "2014-06-21T13:37:43Z")
Well, you _could_ have mentioned me.
Yes, I’m using gccgo. I don’t really know why. It works (golang-go doesn’t for some secret reason, it doesn’t tell me).
**But:** This is _no explanation_ for your results. My PPA is still on 0.8.13. Because of the anonymous usage reporting. Next week I’m trying to build 0.8.14 - without anonymous usage reporting and update mechanism.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t agree with the data being collected. But I don’t want to mess with the data. My build currently reports itself as version `unknown`. I’m going to address this issue - sometime.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/whos-building-syncthing-out-there/419/6 "2014-06-21T21:09:22Z")
If all that’s stopping you is that you can’t get the variables set right with gccgo, feel free to just edit the default values in main.go. I think that’s better than going with an older build, especially as I’ll release 0.8.16 tomorrow.
I’d recommend trying to build with regular go. Go out of the box from [golang.org](http://golang.org) and build.sh should work perfectly.
But yeah, not you skewing the reported results then. Still curious about who is doing the custom magic build. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2017, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/whos-building-syncthing-out-there/419/7 "2017-05-12T13:17:43Z")