feature: Add flag to ignore go compatibility matrix (#5078)

* add go-compatibility feature

Signed-off-by: sivchari <[email protected]>

* rename env

Signed-off-by: sivchari <[email protected]>

* fix description

Signed-off-by: sivchari <[email protected]>

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Signed-off-by: sivchari <[email protected]>

Author: sivchari

builder/config.go

@@ -33,10 +33,13 @@ func NewConfig(options *compileopts.Options) (*compileopts.Config, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	if gorootMajor != 1 || gorootMinor < minorMin || gorootMinor > minorMax {
-		// Note: when this gets updated, also update the Go compatibility matrix:
-		// https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo-site/blob/dev/content/docs/reference/go-compat-matrix.md
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("requires go version 1.%d through 1.%d, got go%d.%d", minorMin, minorMax, gorootMajor, gorootMinor)
+
+	if options.GoCompatibility {
+		if gorootMajor != 1 || gorootMinor < minorMin || gorootMinor > minorMax {
+			// Note: when this gets updated, also update the Go compatibility matrix:
+			// https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo-site/blob/dev/content/docs/reference/go-compat-matrix.md
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("requires go version 1.%d through 1.%d, got go%d.%d", minorMin, minorMax, gorootMajor, gorootMinor)
+		}
 	}
 
 	// Check that the Go toolchain version isn't too new, if we haven't been

compileopts/options.go

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ type Options struct {
 	WITPackage      string // pass through to wasm-tools component embed invocation
 	WITWorld        string // pass through to wasm-tools component embed -w option
 	ExtLDFlags      []string
+	GoCompatibility bool // enable to check for Go version compatibility
 }
 
 // Verify performs a validation on the given options, raising an error if options are not valid.

main.go

@@ -1635,6 +1635,7 @@ func main() {
 	cpuprofile := flag.String("cpuprofile", "", "cpuprofile output")
 	monitor := flag.Bool("monitor", false, "enable serial monitor")
 	baudrate := flag.Int("baudrate", 115200, "baudrate of serial monitor")
+	gocompatibility := flag.Bool("go-compatibility", true, "enable to check for Go versions compatibility, you can also configure this by setting the TINYGO_GOCOMPATIBILITY environment variable")
 
 	// Internal flags, that are only intended for TinyGo development.
 	printIR := flag.Bool("internal-printir", false, "print LLVM IR")
@@ -1712,6 +1713,16 @@ func main() {
 		ocdCommands = strings.Split(*ocdCommandsString, ",")
 	}
 
+	val, ok := os.LookupEnv("TINYGO_GOCOMPATIBILITY")
+	if ok {
+		b, err := strconv.ParseBool(val)
+		if err != nil {
+			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "could not parse TINYGO_GOCOMPATIBILITY value %q: %v\n", val, err)
+			os.Exit(1)
+		}
+		*gocompatibility = b
+	}
+
 	options := &compileopts.Options{
 		GOOS:            goenv.Get("GOOS"),
 		GOARCH:          goenv.Get("GOARCH"),
@@ -1748,6 +1759,7 @@ func main() {
 		Timeout:         *timeout,
 		WITPackage:      witPackage,
 		WITWorld:        witWorld,
+		GoCompatibility: *gocompatibility,
 	}
 	if *printCommands {
 		options.PrintCommands = printCommand