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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright 2024 The Kubernetes Authors.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+# Build the release binaries for every OS/arch combination.
+# It builds compressed artifacts on $release_dir.
+function build_kustomize_binary {
+  echo "build kustomize binaries"
+  
+  version=$1
+  release_dir=$2
+
+  echo "build release artifacts to $release_dir"
+
+  mkdir -p "output"
+  
+  # build date in ISO8601 format
+  build_date=$(date -u +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')
+  for os in linux darwin windows; do
+    arch_list=(amd64 arm64)
+    if [ "$os" == "linux" ]; then
+      arch_list=(amd64 arm64 s390x ppc64le)
+    fi
+    for arch in "${arch_list[@]}" ; do
+      echo "Building $os-$arch"
+    #   CGO_ENABLED=0 GOWORK=off GOOS=$os GOARCH=$arch go build -o output/kustomize -ldflags\
+      binary_name="kustomize"
+      [[ "$os" == "windows" ]] && binary_name="kustomize.exe"
+      CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=$os GOARCH=$arch go build -o output/$binary_name -ldflags\
+        "-s -w\
+        -X sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/provenance.version=$version\
+        -X sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/provenance.gitCommit=$(git rev-parse HEAD)\
+        -X sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api/provenance.buildDate=$build_date"\
+        kustomize/main.go
+      if [ "$os" == "windows" ]; then
+        zip -j "${release_dir}/kustomize_${version}_${os}_${arch}.zip" output/$binary_name
+      else
+        tar cvfz "${release_dir}/kustomize_${version}_${os}_${arch}.tar.gz" -C output $binary_name
+      fi
+      rm output/$binary_name
+    done
+  done
+
+  # create checksums.txt
+  pushd "${release_dir}"
+  for release in *; do
+    echo "generate checksum: $release"
+    sha256sum "$release" >> checksums.txt
+  done
+  popd
+
+  rmdir output
+}
+
+main() {
+
+  currentTag=$(git describe --tags)
+  version=${currentTag##*/}
+  
+  if grep -q -E '^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)*$' <<< "$version"
+  then
+      printf "%s is NOT in semver format.\n" "$version"
+      exit 1
+  fi
+
+  mkdir -p dist
+  release_artifact_dir=${PWD}/dist
+  build_kustomize_binary "${version}" "${release_artifact_dir}"
+}
+
+main $@
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