Go Getting started with Go Setting up the environment
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If Go is not pre-installed in your system you can go to https://golang.org/dl/ and choose your platform to download and install Go.
To set up a basic Go development environment, only a few of the many environment variables that affect the behavior of the go tool (See: Listing Go Environment Variables for a full list) need to be set (generally in your shell's ~/.profile file, or equivalent on Unix-like OSs).
GOPATH
Like the system PATH environment variable, Go path is a :(; on Windows) delimited list of directories where Go will look for packages. The go get tool will also download packages to the first directory in this list.
The GOPATH is where Go will setup associated bin, pkg, and src folders needed for the workspace:
src— location of source files:.go,.c,.g,.spkg— has compiled.afilesbin— contains executable files built by Go
From Go 1.8 onwards, the GOPATH environment variable will have a default value if it is unset. It defaults to $HOME/go on Unix/Linux and %USERPROFILE%/go on Windows.
Some tools assume that GOPATH will contain a single directory.
GOBIN
The bin directory where go install and go get will place binaries after building main packages. Generally this is set to somewhere on the system PATH so that installed binaries can be run and discovered easily.
GOROOT
This is the location of your Go installation. It is used to find the standard libraries. It is very rare to have to set this variable as Go embeds the build path into the toolchain. Setting GOROOT is needed if the installation directory differs from the build directory (or the value set when building).
