On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at 4:12:45 AM UTC-4, brainman wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 16:04:28 UTC+11, Pat Farrell wrote: > > 1) is the standard documentation wrong/out of date? > > What documentation are you referring to? Did you read > https://golang.org/doc/code.html ? >
https://golang.org/doc/install > > 2) how do I get the go build process to create a hello.exe rather than > go.exe? > > I suspect Go uses your current directory to name your output file. Read > https://golang.org/doc/code.html how to organize your Go code. You could > also use -o flag to provide whatever output file name you like, for example > "go build -o hello.exe". > I'll try that. > > 3) how do I get the bash shell to let me just type 'go build' like we > all want? > > What bash shell are you talking about? Windows does not come with bash > shell. If you have Linux install, then you should install Linux version of > Go, not Windows version of Go. > You are way out of date on this one. After decades of providing a terrible shell, Microsoft has decided to provide a real bash shell with real Ubuntu utilities. It has apt-get and is pretty nice, way better than the old cmd shell https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about Still need to figure out how to make a simple 'go build' work rather than having to enter 'go.exe build' all the time -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
