Value injection at build time seems to only work for the main package

core/constants.go

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-package core
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-)
-
-// the following are injected at build-time
-var (
-	//GitCommit is the commit which this version of owncast is running
-	GitCommit = "unknown"
-	//BuildVersion is the version
-	BuildVersion = "0.0.0"
-	//BuildType is the type of build
-	BuildType = "localdev"
-)
-
-//GetVersion gets the version string
-func GetVersion() string {
-	return fmt.Sprintf("Owncast v%s-%s (%s)", BuildVersion, BuildType, GitCommit)
-}

main.go

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
+
 	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
 
 	"github.com/gabek/owncast/config"
@@ -8,9 +10,19 @@ import (
 	"github.com/gabek/owncast/router"
 )
 
+// the following are injected at build-time
+var (
+	//GitCommit is the commit which this version of owncast is running
+	GitCommit = "unknown"
+	//BuildVersion is the version
+	BuildVersion = "0.0.0"
+	//BuildType is the type of build
+	BuildType = "localdev"
+)
+
 func main() {
 	// logrus.SetReportCaller(true)
-	log.Println(core.GetVersion())
+	log.Println(getVersion())
 
 	//TODO: potentially load the config from a flag like:
 	//configFile := flag.String("configFile", "config.yaml", "Config File full path. Defaults to current folder")
@@ -31,3 +43,8 @@ func main() {
 		panic(err)
 	}
 }
+
+//getVersion gets the version string
+func getVersion() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("Owncast v%s-%s (%s)", BuildVersion, BuildType, GitCommit)
+}

scripts/build.sh

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ build() {
   cp -R doc/ dist/${NAME}/doc/
   cp README.md dist/${NAME}
 
-  env CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=$OS GOARCH=$ARCH go build -ldflags "-X core.GitCommit=$GIT_COMMIT -X core.BuildVersion=$VERSION -X core.BuildType=$NAME" -a -o dist/$NAME/owncast
+  env CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=$OS GOARCH=$ARCH go build -ldflags "-X main.GitCommit=$GIT_COMMIT -X main.BuildVersion=$VERSION -X main.BuildType=$NAME" -a -o dist/$NAME/owncast
 
   pushd dist/${NAME} >> /dev/null
   zip -r -q -8 ../owncast-$NAME-$VERSION.zip .