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Workspace

A workspace is a directory hierarchy with three directories at its root:

• src contains Go source files,
• pkg contains package objects, and
• bin contains executable commands.

The GOPATH environment variable

Note: The following command is just for Windows

Printing the effective current go environment variables:

>go env

Before build your go code, you have to set the GOPATH:

>set GOPATH=[path of your workspace]

You can use the following command or go env, go env GOPATH to make sure that the environment variable be set:

>echo %GOPATH%

Compile your go code

Suppose your directory hierarchy is

Workspace
    ├ bin
    ├ pkg
    └ src
       └ hello
           └ hello.go

1.set GOPATH

>set GOPATH=[the absolute path of Workspace]

2.compile

>go install hello

(the command is go install [package_name])

You can also omit the package path if you run go install from the package directory

>cd src\hello
>go install

3.This command install the binary to Workspace's bin directory as hello.exe.