Go Development and Execution Environment

Internal

• Go Engineering

The go Tool

go is a tool used to manage source code. More details:

go

Environment Variables

GOPATH

The GOPATH environment variable defines the workspace directory. Go tools assume that your code is under the path designated by GOPATH. Used to search for packages during compilation, when packages are being imported.

GOROOT

Used to search for packages during compilation, when packages are being imported.

Compilation

go build

Execution

go run

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