Remove file paths from TEXT directives in go binaries - go

Question

I want to remove all path information like /Users/myuser/dev/go/src/fooapi/spikes/mongoapi.go from the executable that I created with go build.
I'm compiling the code like this:
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -v -a -ldflags="-w -s" -o ./fooapi spikes/mongoapi.go
Some part of the example assembly from the go build command above:
$ go tool objdump ./fooapi
.
.
TEXT main.init(SB) /Users/myuser/dev/go/src/api/spikes/mongoapi.go
mongoapi.go:60 0x12768c0 65488b0c25a0080000 GS MOVQ GS:0x8a0, CX
mongoapi.go:60 0x12768c9 483b6110 CMPQ 0x10(CX), SP
mongoapi.go:60 0x12768cd 7663 JBE 0x1276932
.
.
Note that: strip is not recommended and can lead to broken executables if you're going to recommend it as a solution.

Answer 1

Use -trimpath flags to remove path information:
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -v -a -ldflags="-w -s" \
-gcflags=-trimpath=/Users/myuser/dev/go/src \
-asmflags=-trimpath=/Users/myuser/dev/go/src \
-o ./fooapi spikes/mongoapi.go
More Information:
Passing -trimpath to -gcflags and -asmflags will remove any path information from the elf binary.
$ go tool asm -help 2>&1 | grep -A1 trimpath
-trimpath string
remove prefix from recorded source file paths
$ go tool compile -help|grep -A1 trimpath
-trimpath string
remove prefix from recorded source file paths
You can check the result with go tool objdump:
$ go tool objdump ./fooapi
.
.
TEXT main.init(SB) api/spikes/mongoapi.go
mongoapi.go:60 0x12768c0 65488b0c25a0080000 GS MOVQ GS:0x8a0, CX
mongoapi.go:60 0x12768c9 483b6110 CMPQ 0x10(CX), SP
mongoapi.go:60 0x12768cd 7663 JBE 0x1276932
.
.
Using strip tool has still some controversies in go community, although it's been said that it's been fixed. Some say that unknown and unpredictable bugs occur sometimes. Read here and here for examples.

Answer 2

trimpath is a good approach, but had issues like go issue 24976
It appears that, when multiple -trimpath flags are passed to go tool compile, the last one wins
Indeed; from what I can tell the trimpath flag is defined as an ordinary string flag, not a list.
But with CL 173344, this is now fixed (for the upcoming Go 1.13)
cmd/internal/objabi: expand -trimpath syntax
This CL affects the low-level -trimpath flag provided
by both cmd/asm and cmd/compile.
Previously, the flag took the name of a single directory that would be trimmed
from recorded paths in the resulting object file.
This CL makes the flag take a semicolon-separated list of paths.
Further, each path can now end in an optional "=>replacement"
to specify what to replace that leading path prefix with,
instead of only dropping it.
A followup CL will add a mode to cmd/go that uses this
richer -trimpath to build binaries that do not contain any
local path names.
This is CL 173345:
cmd/go: add -trimpath build flag
"go build -trimpath" trims the recorded file paths in the resulting packages and executables to avoid recording the names of any local directories.
Instead, the files appear to be stored in directories named either "go/src/..." (for the standard library) or named after the module or package in which the files appear.
This fixes issue 16860, which is about Go ability to generate bit-for-bit identical binaries, as noted by Ivan Daniluk.