Fixing go: inconsistent vendoring in C:\Go\src

Question

I recently started learning Go programming language for Web and now I can't build my project. I'm getting "inconsistent vendoring". I checked github and the library is missing i.e. (Actually the library is still there but with no v0.1.0) vscode error type on build

Answer 1

Run the following before go build

go mod tidy
go mod vendor

Answer 2

This problem can also occur if you vendor/modules.txt file is missing. This happened in a project that gitignored *.txt and the solution was simply to commit this file and then follow what @amit-basuri wrote in his answer.

Answer 3

On windows:

Initially, I had my packages in C\:Go\src. It turns out that, go creates other directories in C:\Users\USERNAME\go\src\. I therefore moved my (personal) packages into the C:\Users\USERNAME\go\src\ folder and those from github into the C:\Users\USERNAME\go\src\github.com folder. Everything started working again.