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title: Integrating a Go project
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# Integrating a Go project
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The process of integrating a project written in Go with OSS-Fuzz is very similar
to the general
[Setting up a new project]({{ site.baseurl }}/getting-started/new-project-guide/)
process. The key specifics of integrating a Go project are outlined below.

## Go-fuzz support

OSS-Fuzz supports **go-fuzz** in the
[libFuzzer compatible mode](https://github.com/mdempsky/go114-fuzz-build)
only. In that mode, fuzz targets for Go use the libFuzzer engine with native Go
coverage instrumentation. Binaries compiled in this mode provide the same
libFuzzer command line interface as non-Go fuzz targets.

## Project files

First, you need to write a Go fuzz target that accepts a stream of bytes and
calls the program API with that. This fuzz target should reside in your project
repository
([example](https://github.com/golang/go/blob/4ad13555184eb0697c2e92c64c1b0bdb287ccc10/src/html/fuzz.go#L13)).

The structure of the project directory in OSS-Fuzz repository doesn't differ for
projects written in Go. The project files have the following Go specific
aspects.

### project.yaml

The `language` attribute must be specified.

```yaml
language: go
```

The only supported fuzzing engine and sanitizer are `libfuzzer` and `address`,
respectively.
[Example](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/blob/356f2b947670b7eb33a1f535c71bc5c87a60b0d1/projects/syzkaller/project.yaml#L7):

```yaml
fuzzing_engines:
  - libfuzzer
sanitizers:
  - address
```

### Dockerfile

The OSS-Fuzz builder image has the latest stable release of Golang installed. In
order to install dependencies of your project, add `RUN git clone ...` command to
your Dockerfile.
[Example](https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/blob/356f2b947670b7eb33a1f535c71bc5c87a60b0d1/projects/syzkaller/Dockerfile#L23):

```dockerfile
# Dependency for one of the fuzz targets.
RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/demangle
```

go-fuzz will then automatically download the dependencies based on the go.mod file

### build.sh

In order to build a Go fuzz target, you need to call `go-fuzz`
command first, and then link the resulting `.a` file against
`$LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE` using the `$CXX $CXXFLAGS ...` command.

The best way to do this is by using a `compile_go_fuzzer` script,
as it also supports coverage builds.

A usage example from go-dns project is

```sh
compile_go_fuzzer github.com/miekg/dns FuzzNewRR fuzz_newrr fuzz
```

Arguments are :
* path of the package with the fuzz target
* name of the fuzz function
* name of the fuzzer to be built
* optional tag to be used by `go build` and such