Hyperledger Fabric not working in accordance with its documentation

Question

Using a MacBook Pro, Big Sur OS, I followed the hyperledger fabric documentation, I installed all the required files and tools. However, when I reached to the final step, the code generated a goimports error that I am not able to repair. The Error was the following:

johnny@JohnnyMBP fabric % make basic-checks integration-test-prereqs
All files are excluded from having license headers
Building github.com/client9/misspell/cmd/misspell -> misspell
Checking changed go files for spelling errors ...
spell checker passed
Checking for go:generate parent path references
Checking trailing spaces ...
DEP: Checking for dependency issues..
./scripts/check_deps.sh
Building golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports -> goimports
Building mvdan.cc/gofumpt -> gofumpt
Building honnef.co/go/tools/cmd/staticcheck -> staticcheck
LINT: Running code checks..
./scripts/golinter.sh
Checking with goimports
The following files contain goimports errors
bccsp/factory/nopkcs11.go
bccsp/factory/nopkcs11_test.go
bccsp/factory/pkcs11.go
bccsp/factory/pkcs11_test.go
bccsp/factory/pkcs11factory.go
bccsp/factory/pkcs11factory_test.go
bccsp/pkcs11/pkcs11_test.go
core/handlers/library/noplugin_test.go
core/handlers/library/plugin.go
core/handlers/library/plugin_stub.go
core/handlers/library/race_test.go
integration/ledger/ledger_generate_test.go
internal/fileutil/syncdir.go
internal/peer/node/signals.go
internal/peer/node/signals_windows.go
orderer/common/server/signals.go
orderer/common/server/signals_windows.go
The goimports command 'goimports -l -w' must be run for these files
make: *** [linter] Error 1
johnny@JohnnyMBP fabric % 

This was my go environment results:

johnny@JohnnyMBP fabric % go env
GO111MODULE=""
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/Users/johnny/Library/Caches/go-build"
GOENV="/Users/johnny/Library/Application Support/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOEXPERIMENT=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOINSECURE=""
GOMODCACHE="/Users/johnny/go/pkg/mod"
GONOPROXY=""
GONOSUMDB=""
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/johnny/go"
GOPRIVATE=""
GOPROXY="https://proxy.golang.org,direct"
GOROOT="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.17.2/libexec"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.17.2/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GOVCS=""
GOVERSION="go1.17.2"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/Users/johnny/github.com/webzest/fabric/go.mod"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -arch x86_64 -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/vs/8twtz6352nb26pnpyqfk11j80000gn/T/go-build698966046=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

Please provide some guidance that I can follow to complete the development environment for hyperledger fabric.

UPDATED:

I ran goimports -l -w on all the .go files and reran a make basic-check. Now, I am getting a vendor error:

johnny@JohnnyMBP fabric % make basic-checks
All files have SPDX-License-Identifier headers
Building github.com/client9/misspell/cmd/misspell -> misspell
Checking changed go files for spelling errors ...
spell checker passed
Checking for go:generate parent path references
Checking trailing spaces ...
DEP: Checking for dependency issues..
./scripts/check_deps.sh
Building golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports -> goimports
Building mvdan.cc/gofumpt -> gofumpt
Building honnef.co/go/tools/cmd/staticcheck -> staticcheck
LINT: Running code checks..
./scripts/golinter.sh
Checking with goimports
Checking with gofumpt
Checking for golang.org/x/net/context
Checking for github.com/gogo/protobuf
Checking with go vet
Checking with staticcheck
The following staticcheck issues were flagged
vendor/github.com/dustin/go-humanize/number.go:76:9: constant  overflow (compile)
vendor/github.com/onsi/ginkgo/internal/leafnodes/benchmarker.go:82:25: constant  overflow (compile)
make: *** [linter] Error 1
johnny@JohnnyMBP fabric % 

Has anyone successfully setup the development environment with the latest version of GO and the latest build on GIT for Fabric? I need help, please?

Answer 1

Two things to try:

• Use Go 1.16 (which is the version currently used to build/run Fabric).
• Use Go installed to /usr/local/go with the official installer rather than installed with Homebrew.

If there really is something wrong with the imports in those files, which there shouldn't be unless they have been modified locally, use the goimports -l -w command for each of the files listed to correct them.

For reference, I am also using a Macbook Pro, running MacOS Monterey but previously with Big Sur, and make basic-checks runs cleanly for me with Go 1.16.9 on the latest main branch code.