rsrc VS Wails

Compare rsrc vs Wails and see what are their differences.

rsrc

Tool for embedding .ico & manifest resources in Go programs for Windows. (by akavel)
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rsrc Wails
3 64
1,180 22,095
- 4.2%
0.0 9.4
12 months ago 6 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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rsrc

Posts with mentions or reviews of rsrc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-06.
  • New feature for Go - add method to get the operating system version
    3 projects | /r/golang | 6 Sep 2022
    One problem is, on Windows, this is impossible without bundling your application with a compiled manifest (I use github.com/akavel/rsrc. It's a horrible state of affairs brought about by backwards compatibility, but without it when you ask for a version, you'll get Windows 8 no matter what.
  • Looking for an interesting project to contribute
    20 projects | /r/golang | 15 Jan 2021
    https://github.com/akavel/rsrc/ - could take some support for version info - it's probably currently the most requested feature in it; as to UX my preference would be for passing it via JSON; some basic barebones tests would also be good, I mean to roughly verify that the version actually gets added successfully, via some powershell/vbscript script or something;
  • CLI for Windows with Go
    8 projects | dev.to | 12 Dec 2020
    When embed data to Go binary, need to prepare syso file. There is a tool called rsrc that will generate syso file for embedding in the rsrc section, so let's use that.

Wails

Posts with mentions or reviews of Wails. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rsrc and Wails you can also consider the following projects:

go-winres - Command line tool for adding Windows resources to executable files

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

space-cloud - Open source Firebase + Heroku to develop, scale and secure serverless apps on Kubernetes

fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design

2goarray - A simple utility to encode a file (or any other data) into a Go byte array.

Lorca - Build cross-platform modern desktop apps in Go + HTML5

sdp - A Go implementation of the SDP

webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).

Pion WebRTC - Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API

example-go-tray-gui - An example desktop system tray application that can launch HTML5 windows. Go source with a build process for Windows, Mac and Linux.

golive - ⚡ Live views for GoLang with reactive HTML over WebSockets 🔌

go-astilectron - Build cross platform GUI apps with GO and HTML/JS/CSS (powered by Electron)