I've found it really dificult to find a concrete tutorial for building zeromq for go in windows using MinGW in centos 7. First lets add the epel-release repo. sudo yum install epel-release Now lets install mingw64. For this tutorial I am going to just install all the mingw libraries. sudo yum install mingw64* Now lets download and compile zeromq using mingw. wget http://download.zeromq.org/zeromq-4.0.5.zip unzip zeromq-4.0.5.zip ~/zeromq cd ~/zeromq mingw64-configure configure mingw64-make Now lets recompile go so that it is also using the mingw compiler.