go install: no install location for directory outside GOPATH

Question

I installed the Go, then added path requirements to my .bash_profile:

• export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
• export GOPATH=$HOME/go

I then setup the correct folders:

I also created a projected called tire. The contents for main.go are simply:

package main  import "fmt"  func main() {   fmt.Println("Hello, world!") } 

I always get the following error when I try to run go install:

go install: no install location for directory /Users/Daryl/go/src/tire outside GOPATH

Here's what I get when I run go env:

GOARCH="amd64" GOBIN="" GOCHAR="6" GOEXE="" GOHOSTARCH="amd64" GOHOSTOS="darwin" GOOS="darwin" GOPATH="/Users/daryl/go" GORACE="" GOROOT="/usr/local/go" GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64" TERM="dumb" CC="clang" GOGCCFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fno-common" CXX="clang++" CGO_ENABLED="1" 

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

When you run go install Go looks for $GOBIN env variable path. Either you need to set your $GOBIN to $GOPATH/bin

$ export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin 

and/or add $GOBIN to your OS search path

$ export PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN 

To use the command without getting the error.

Answer 2

The problem was as James Henstridge commented, for some reason there was an issue with my user directory name case. Even though the directory is lowercase, I had to make it capitalized.

This worked:

GOPATH=/Users/Daryl/go

This didn't:

GOPATH=$HOME/go

However, since moving to a rMBP from my iMac, I had no problems whatsoever setting up Go, so, to this day, I'm not sure what was going on, but in that instance the capitalization fixed it.