I'm following the gRPC Quickstart tutorial for Go, https://grpc.io/docs/quickstart/go/, and have installed gRPC using the command
go get -u google.golang.org/grpc
I actually haven't defined a GOPATH environment variable:
> echo $GOPATH
which, as I understand it, means that it defaults to ~/go, or in my case /Users/kurt/go.
At the next step, I'd like to build the example by doing
cd $GOPATH/src/google.golang.org/grpc/examples/helloworld
However, I find that the directory doesn't exist, and there is also no google.golang.org directory in /Users/kurt/go/src:
~/g/src> ls *google*
fish: No matches for wildcard '*google*'. See `help expand`.
ls *google*
^
Should the package not be located here? That's what I understand from Where does go get install packages?.
Using Go Modules, you can find 'go get' downloaded files at:
~/go/pkg/mod/cache/download
However, it should be treated like an immutable copy of the source code.
If you want a mutable copy of the source code, you should clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go
In your example output, you are in ~/g/arc
Go path default would be ~/go/src
I think auto complete bit ya there
In the end, I worked around the problem by cloning https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go which appears to contain the examples/helloworld directory I'm looking for. Still curious to hear where the package downloaded with go get is located.