Vendoring in Go 1.6

Question

I’ve read as many docs and StackOverflow articles as I can find, yet I am having no luck importing using the new vendor feature in Go 1.6.

Here's a sample project I put together with Goji to test. The directory structure is as such:

.
└── src
    ├── main.go
    └── vendor
        └── github.com
            └── zenazn
                └── goji
                    ├── LICENSE
                    ├── README.md
                    ├── bind
                    ├── default.go
                    ├── example
                    ├── goji.go
                    ├── graceful
                    ├── serve.go
                    ├── serve_appengine.go
                    └── web

And main.go, the sole file in the project, is as such:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"

    "github.com/zenazn/goji"
    "github.com/zenazn/goji/web"
)

func hello(c web.C, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    fmt.Fprintf(w, "Hello, %s!", c.URLParams["name"])
}

func main() {
    goji.Get("/hello/:name", hello)
    goji.Serve()
}

My environment variables are as such:

export GOPATH=~/.go
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/opt/go/libexec/bin:$GOBIN

I’ve tried the most simple build commands, with no luck:

go run ./src/main.go
go build ./src/main.go

I’ve also attempted to build with:

$GOPATH=`pwd`

...to no avail. Am I totally missing something? Any advice is appreciated.

Answer 1

I suggest you to read https://golang.org/doc/code.html. It requires a day or two to digest but after you understand how go tools work with the source code and GOPATH it is really easy to use them.

Back to your question. To build a simple go program you need to:

• create directory under $GOPATH/src, e.g. mkdir $GOPATH/src/myprogram
• put all the source code (including vendor directory) there: $GOPATH/src/myprogram/main.go, $GOPATH/src/myprogram/vendor.
• run go install myprogram to build your application and put the resulting myprogram binary to $GOPATH/bin/myprogram