After go install the import doesn't recognize the package

Question

Hi I'm pretty new at Golang, after install it I would like to use the next package in my project: https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin

After I created my project, I did the next command to install gingonic:

go get -u github.com/gin-gonic/gin

But the import is not recognized inside my project, I understand that it's something related with my GOROOT, but I wasn't able to solve the issue.

The next are are my Go env variables:

GO111MODULE="on"
GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/Users/rpantoja/Library/Caches/go-build"
GOENV="/Users/rpantoja/Library/Application Support/go/env"
GOEXE=""
GOFLAGS=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOINSECURE=""
GOMODCACHE="/Users/rpantoja/go/pkg/mod"
GONOPROXY="github.com/mercadolibre"
GONOSUMDB="github.com/mercadolibre"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/rpantoja/go"
GOPRIVATE="github.com/mercadolibre"
GOPROXY="http://goregistry.furycloud.io/"
GOROOT="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.15/libexec"
GOSUMDB="sum.golang.org"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.15/libexec/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
AR="ar"
CC="clang"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
GOMOD="/dev/null"
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/gz/zfy97n595rs5w_t0dr9wr29dzzxvs4/T/go-build960054223=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches -fno-common"

And this is how my project it's configured:

After install the package:

Answer 1

The steps to do to set up a new Go project with modules:

1. Have Go installed. Latest version preferably, best >= v1.13 which Go modules the default. For go1.11 and above you will have to do some extra steps to enable Go modules.
2. Create a new folder for your project. Preferably NOT in GOPATH. By default GOPATH is ~/go, so create your own projects folder, e.g. mkdir ~/projects and then mkdir ~/projects/myproject.
3. All further commands are run from the new projects root, so best switch there: cd ~/projects/myproject
4. In the newly created folder run go mod init projectPath where projectPath should be the URL of your future git repo (e.g. github.com/myname/myproject). This will create the go.mod file in the current folder. It will contain the module name you used in go mod init and the currently installed go version as a minimum version. (Don't worry about that for now, it won't get in your way.) If you don't plan on ever releasing your project, you can name your project anything. But if that ever conflicts with another package or module name, you are in trouble.
5. Now you can run go get github.com/gin-gonic/gin (don't use -u, that is dangerous as it update all sub-dependencies instead of using the dependencies the gin developers used). This should add github.com/gin-gonic/gin to your go.mod file as a requirement. If you want to update a dependency, just call go get depPath again. It will update the dependency version in your go.mod file to the latest version available. If you want to up-/downgrade to a specific version use go get [email protected].
6. Create your main.go and use github.com/gin-gonic/gin in there.
7. Use go mod tidy to remove all unused imports or add missing ones to go.mod. (Usually you don't need to edit go.mod, go mod tidy will do that for you.) It will also tidy up your go.sum file which holds check sums for all your dependencies. You can have a look at the file, but will (usually) never have to edit it. go mod tidy will do that for you.
8. In Goland the most important is to make sure Go modules integration is enabled. The other settings should be correct by default.
9. If you still have problems with the dependencies, you can try a go clean -modcache. It will clear your entire local modules cache, so you need to download all of it again. This can sometimes help if the modules cache got messed up somehow. Should not happen normally, though.

Hope this helps. If it doesn't, let me know so I can add the missing parts.

Answer 2

You should just use

go mod init 'yourmodulename' (e.g. go mod init github.com/smsa/testproject)

and then get (download) your package

go get 'yourpckagename' (e.g. go get github.com/gin-gonic/gin)