"Bootstrapping go" means "building the go compiler toolchain from scratch". You almost certainly don't want to do this. This is something you'd normally only attempt if there is not a suitable go binary distribution available for your system.
Go needs to run under an operating system. ESXi emulates a PC as a "virtual machine", but you cannot boot a PC directly into Go: that is, Go does not run on "bare metal". So with ESXi you first need to create a VM, install an operating system inside it, and then you install Go inside that. For example, if you installed a Linux VM under ESXi, then inside that VM you can install the Linux distribution of Go, which you can download from https://go.dev/dl/. Ditto if you chose to install a FreeBSD or Windows VM - you simply download the FreeBSD or Windows distribution of Go. On Monday, 9 January 2023 at 23:58:56 UTC mi...@newclarity.net wrote: > Is your ESXi server not running an Intel x86 processor? That is what the > article is about. > > Also, what OS is your guest VM running? > > -Mike > > On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 4:20:15 PM UTC-5 brett....@gmail.com wrote: > >> Good afternoon, hoping to get a little help. >> >> I am trying to build a bootstrap candidate that allows me to build and >> run go programs on an ESXi server. >> >> I am following this >> <https://dave.cheney.net/2015/10/16/bootstrapping-go-1-5-on-non-intel-platforms> >> blog, and the issue is that my bootstrap candidate doesn't contain the >> go binary in the bin directory that is required when running all.bash. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/0ea77641-1061-4b9b-96f9-2c7f6f1f1790n%40googlegroups.com.
