Go Tool Shared Flags

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• go Tool

Overview

These flags are shared by the build, clean, get, install, list, run, and test commands.

-v

Print the names of packages as they are compiled.

-x

Print the commands while running them.

-a

Force rebuilding of packages that are already up-to-date.

-n

Print the commands but do not run them.

-work

Print the name of the temporary work directory and do not delete it when exiting.

-p

-p n

represents the number of programs, such as build commands or test binaries, that can be run in parallel. The default is the number of CPUs available, except on darwin/arm which defaults to 1.

-race

Enable data race detection. Supported only on linux/amd64, freebsd/amd64, darwin/amd64 and windows/amd64.

-msan

Enable interoperation with memory sanitizer. Supported only on linux/amd64, and only with Clang/LLVM as the host C compiler.

To Process

	-asmflags 'flag list'
		arguments to pass on each go tool asm invocation.
	-buildmode mode
		build mode to use. See 'go help buildmode' for more.
	-compiler name
		name of compiler to use, as in runtime.Compiler (gccgo or gc).
	-gccgoflags 'arg list'
		arguments to pass on each gccgo compiler/linker invocation.
	-gcflags 'arg list'
		arguments to pass on each go tool compile invocation.
	-installsuffix suffix
		a suffix to use in the name of the package installation directory,
		in order to keep output separate from default builds.
		If using the -race flag, the install suffix is automatically set to race
		or, if set explicitly, has _race appended to it.  Likewise for the -msan
		flag.  Using a -buildmode option that requires non-default compile flags
		has a similar effect.
	-ldflags 'flag list'
		arguments to pass on each go tool link invocation.
	-linkshared
		link against shared libraries previously created with
		-buildmode=shared.
	-pkgdir dir
		install and load all packages from dir instead of the usual locations.
		For example, when building with a non-standard configuration,
		use -pkgdir to keep generated packages in a separate location.
	-tags 'tag list'
		a list of build tags to consider satisfied during the build.
		For more information about build tags, see the description of
		build constraints in the documentation for the go/build package.
	-toolexec 'cmd args'
		a program to use to invoke toolchain programs like vet and asm.
		For example, instead of running asm, the go command will run
		'cmd args /path/to/asm <arguments for asm>'.

The list flags accept a space-separated list of strings. To embed spaces
in an element in the list, surround it with either single or double quotes.