CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user
user

Reputation: 2884

How does Go locate imported packages?

I am new to Go, and I have prepared my work space according to the How to write go code

But now I am confused how go tool gets the path of packages like fmt, strings or my own packages.

As in C language we provide the path of header file by -I and linker path by -L but in Go we have given two paths GOHOME and GOPATH and both paths are of bin directories none of them specify the package path.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 182

Answers (2)

Erikw
Erikw

Reputation: 774

$GOPATH is a colon (or semicolon on Windows) separated list of paths to Go workspaces (with the {bin,pkg,src} structure). The go tools will automatically look for packages and source files in those paths when compiling and linking your programs.

Upvotes: 0

Evan
Evan

Reputation: 6545

As is explained in the article you linked, GOPATH (and other go locations) should be layed out with a "pkg" directory for compiled libraries, and a "src" directory for library sources. They are not just bin directories.

Upvotes: 2

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