title: How to cross compile from Windows to Linux?
body: <p>I've installed Go 1.2 on a Windows machine, wrote up a dummy program and set the environment variables <code>GOARCH</code> and <code>GOOS</code> to "AMD64" and "linux" respectively.</p>
  
  <p>When i issue the "<code>go build</code>" command, i receive an error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>go build runtime: linux/amd64 must be bootstrapped using make.bat
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What does this mean?</p>