Go Wiki: GOPATH https://go.dev/wiki/GOPATH
peter On Sunday, February 23, 2025 at 9:59:13 AM UTC-5 peterGo wrote: > On Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 7:52:53 PM UTC-5 Björn Försterling wrote: > > Hello, > > according to "The Go Programming Lanuage" (Alan A. A. Donovan/Brian W. > Kernighan) > page 291 the "GOPATH" should have a subdirectory named "src". > > However that dir is not present on my system: > > > The Go programming language is covered by a compatibility guarantee. > > Go 1 and the Future of Go Programs > https://go.dev/doc/go1compat > > The Go programming tools are not covered by a compatibility guarantee. > > Go Release History > https://go.dev/doc/devel/release > > Because of the compatibility guarantee, The Go Programming Language by > Alan A. A. Donovan and Brian W. Kernighan, published Oct 26, 2015, is still > valid for the programming language. It is often no longer valid for the > programming tools. > > The Go Programming Language > https://www.gopl.io/ > > Start with the official, authoritative Go documentation, especially, > Developing modules. > > Go Documentation > https://go.dev/ > https://go.dev/learn/ > https://go.dev/doc/ > > Some YouTube video book review, found using Google Search, is unlikely to > be helpful. > > peter > > > $ ls $(go env GOPATH) > bin pkg > > When doing a type check with the "go/types" package and the default > importer (importer.Default()) it will also search the imported package > inside GOPATH/src: > > could not import github.com/Code-Hex/Neo-cowsay/v2 (can't find import: " > github.com/Code-Hex/Neo-cowsay/v2": cannot find package " > github.com/Code-Hex/Neo-cowsay/v2" in any of: > /usr/lib/go/src/github.com/Code-Hex/Neo-cowsay/v2 (from $GOROOT) > /home/bf/go/src/github.com/Code-Hex/Neo-cowsay/v2 (from $GOPATH)) > > I installed the external package with "go get ..." and I am able to build > the > module that uses the external package. > > Does anyone know how it can happen that $GOPATH/src does not exist? > > Regards > Bjoern > > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/ea7e7bbd-f32c-4a74-8c15-51542b1c36b0n%40googlegroups.com.
