So I decided I wanted to learn go, and so I started the tour. In stage 3 of that tour they recommend to use go to checkout a copy of the tour and run it locally, so I installed go for mac via the recommended installer package.
I then had the go command available, so I ran go get code.google.com/p/go-tour/gotour as it suggests in the tour.
It says "and then run the resultant gotour executable" in the tour. No executable was to be found.
The output from go get was this:
package code.google.com/p/go-tour/gotour: Get https://code.google.com/p/go-tour/source/checkout?repo=: EOF
I know EOF means end of file but I'm not sure as to whether that was an error message or not.
I have hg installed:
$ hg --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.3.1)
And I set my $GOPATH (and the file doesn't appear there):
echo $GOPATH
/Users/alex/.golib
Running go env returns this:
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOBIN=""
GOARCH="386"
GOCHAR="8"
GOOS="darwin"
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="386"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_386"
GOGCCFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC -m32 -pthread -fno-common"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
If it helps, I'm using fish as my shell.
What am I doing wrong?
a go get (contrary to go get -u) will get, compile and install the go module you want in $GOPATH.
The executable gotour will be in $GOPATH/bin.
So make sure you have your $GOPATH/bin in your path.
When executed, you should see:
2012/09/15 10:43:57 Serving content from $GOPATH/src/code.google.com/p/go-tour
2012/09/15 10:43:57 Open your web browser and visit http://127.0.0.1:3999/
Note (personal preference): I would use a more visible path than /Users/alex/.golib: /Users/alex/goGOPATH isn't just to get some libs, but to develop all your go projects.