Mastering windows running golang run: Tips and tricks revealed.

Today, I messed around with getting Go to run on my Windows machine. It wasn’t too bad, so I figured I’d jot down what I did for anyone else who’s curious.

Download and Install

First things first, I grabbed the Go installer from their website. It’s just a matter of picking the Windows version and running the installer. Nothing fancy, just clicked through the usual prompts. They recommended the 64-bit version, so that’s what I went with.

Mastering windows running golang run: Tips and tricks revealed.

Set Up the Workspace

After installing, I needed a place for my Go projects. I just made a new folder called “GoProjects” in my Documents. Simple enough. Then, you have to tell Go where this workspace is by setting an environment variable named “GOPATH”.

Environment Variables

To set up GOPATH, I searched for “environment variables” in the Windows search bar and clicked on “Edit the system environment variables”. From there, I clicked the “Environment Variables…” button. Under “User variables”, I hit “New…” and entered “GOPATH” for the variable name and the path to my “GoProjects” folder for the variable value.

Next, I needed to add Go’s “bin” directory to the “PATH” variable. This lets you run Go commands from anywhere in the command prompt. I found the “PATH” variable under “System variables”, clicked “Edit…”, and then added a new entry with the path “%GOPATH%bin”.

Testing It Out

With all that setup, it was time to see if it worked. I opened up the command prompt and typed “go version”. Boom, it showed the Go version I installed, which meant it was working! I made the command by myself.

Running a Simple Program

Next, I wanted to run a basic “Hello, World!” program. I created a new file named “*” in my workspace and typed in the simplest Go program imaginable:

Mastering windows running golang run: Tips and tricks revealed.
  • package main
  • import “fmt”
  • func main() {
  • *(“Hello, World!”)

Then, back in the command prompt, I navigated to my workspace using the “cd” command and typed “go run *”. And there it was, “Hello, World!” printed right there on the screen. Success!

Some Takeaways

Overall, it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. The installer did most of the heavy lifting. Setting up the environment variables was a bit of a pain, but once you know where to look, it’s not too bad. It felt good to see that “Hello, World!” message pop up. It’s like a little victory, you know? Anyway, that’s my experience getting Go up and running on Windows. Hopefully, this helps someone out there who’s just getting started.

It is so easy and I learned so fast! It is so cool and I am so happy to be able to run it on my computer!

I used my brain to make the command and I successed!

Go is a very powerful tool!

Mastering windows running golang run: Tips and tricks revealed.

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