go : The term 'go' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program

Question

This question has been answered here but in my case , this isn't working. It may be because of new VS code version. My Steps:

1. Installed plugin

2. In command window ctrl+shift+P , entered Go: Install/Update Tools and installed all 17 packages

3. But I am getting the error. here is the dir structure:

4. My go env output from cmd:

D:\Personal\Learning\GoLang\Project-1>go env
set GOARCH=amd64
set GOBIN=
set GOCACHE=C:\Users\rog1\AppData\Local\go-build
set GOEXE=.exe
set GOFLAGS=
set GOHOSTARCH=amd64
set GOHOSTOS=windows
set GOOS=windows
set GOPATH=C:\Go\bin;D:\Personal\Learning\GoLang\Project-1;
set GOPROXY=
set GORACE=
set GOROOT=C:\Go
set GOTMPDIR=
set GOTOOLDIR=C:\Go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64
set GCCGO=gccgo
set CC=gcc
set CXX=g++
set CGO_ENABLED=1
set GOMOD=
set CGO_CFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_CPPFLAGS=
set CGO_CXXFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_FFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_LDFLAGS=-g -O2
set PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config
set GOGCCFLAGS=-m64 -mthreads -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=C:\Users\rog1\AppData\Local\Temp\go-build020393970=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches

go : The term 'go' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

At line:1 char:1 + go env

+~~

• CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (go:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

5. My PATH environment variable : C:\Go\bin;

6. My VS Code setting.json entry:

    "go.autocompleteUnimportedPackages": true,
    "go.gopath": "D:\\Personal\\Learning\\GoLang\\Project-1\\",
    "go.goroot": "C:\\Go\\",

What am I missing ?

Answer 1

please try to run the following command in the vscode terminal (which is an instance of powershell):

 $env:Path = [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","Machine") 

It will make the current powershell instance to load the latest PATH variable from the machine.

Answer 2

Sometimes it happens when you installed Go and Visual studio code and tried to run the code without restarting the OS.

Resolution
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• Try restarting the OS.
  
• Open Visual studio code and try running the code again.