x/mobile: build failing when using go modules

[mirza-s]

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version go1.11 darwin/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN="/Users/mbp/go/bin"
GOCACHE="/Users/mbp/Library/Caches/go-build"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/mbp/go"
GOPROXY=""
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/Users/mbp/wrk/src/libfp/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 -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/var/folders/nt/0hzfppd92jvbk99fhvnhy8ph0000gn/T/go-build526348344=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

What did you do?

gomobile bind -target=android .

What did you expect to see?

Normal build as when building inside GOPATH

What did you see instead?

gomobile: go build -buildmode=c-shared -o=/var/folders/nt/0hzfppd92jvbk99fhvnhy8ph0000gn/T/gomobile-work-327189385/android/src/main/jniLibs/armeabi-v7a/libgojni.so gobind failed: exit status 1
go: finding github.com/dustin/go-humanize v0.0.0-20180713052910-9f541cc9db5d
go: finding golang.org/x/mobile v0.0.0-20180808221059-bceb7ef27cc6
can't load package: package gobind: unknown import path "gobind": cannot find module providing package gobind

[hajimehoshi]

Hi, what's going on this?

[wangyun]

I have the same issue but with some different error message:

gomobile: /home/wangyun/dev/gopath/bin/gobind -lang=go,java -outdir=/tmp/gomobile-work-948078978 testaar failed: exit status 1
unable to import bind: cannot find package "golang.org/x/mobile/bind" in any of:
/home/wangyun/dev/software/go/src/golang.org/x/mobile/bind (from $GOROOT)
/home/wangyun/dev/gopath/src/golang.org/x/mobile/bind (from $GOPATH)
unable to import bind: cannot find package "golang.org/x/mobile/bind" in any of:
/home/wangyun/dev/software/go/src/golang.org/x/mobile/bind (from $GOROOT)
/home/wangyun/dev/gopath/src/golang.org/x/mobile/bind (from $GOPATH)
unable to import bind/java: cannot find package "golang.org/x/mobile/bind/java" in any of:
/home/wangyun/dev/software/go/src/golang.org/x/mobile/bind/java (from $GOROOT)
/home/wangyun/dev/gopath/src/golang.org/x/mobile/bind/java (from $GOPATH)

I'm using go 1.11 and updated gomobile, gobind to the latest version.

[evenardo]

'''
env go111module=off gomobile bind
'''
it's will temporarily worked fine

[myitcv]

cc @eliasnaur - some time has elapsed since this issue and I'm not sufficiently up to speed to know whether mobile is now modules-aware.

[eliasnaur]

Gomobile has not been converted. ons. 14. nov. 2018 06.25 skrev Paul Jolly <notifications@github.com>:

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cc @eliasnaur <https://github.com/eliasnaur> - some time has elapsed since this issue and I'm not sufficiently up to speed to know whether mobile is now modules-aware. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#27234 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAgCDBmUNHJxqpeDT1Njw9kvu-CzgzI3ks5uu6lJgaJpZM4WMvnl> .

[kingwill101]

is there work currently being done on this front?

[eliasnaur]

Not yet, at least not from my side. Partly because of time available, partly because I prefer to wait for module support to mature (GO111MODULE always on, the go/packages package feature complete and so on), but the main stumbling block is that I can't see the gomobile bind mode work as usual in module mode, at least not in its current form.
The problem is vendoring: gomobile bind generates a main package that in turn imports the packages you want to export to Java or Objective C. That works well in GOPATH mode, but not in module mode. Suppose gomobile bind in module mode generates a module containing a main package and your module as a dependency. Then, because vendored packages are only respected for the main module, any vendored packages from your module will be ignored by the go tool.
Perhaps some form of #26640 will help gomobile. Perhaps gomobile bind should work in a different way. I haven't thought that much about it.

[eliasnaur]

I started a conversation about gomobile and modules here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/C0ip7pFC2Oc

One question I would like you to ponder on that thread is whether it would be acceptable to require gomobile users to first generate glue code with the gobind tool and then only let the gomobile tool do the final packaging.