Question

I have installed Go from gomingw for windows 64 bit. However, I cannot find out anywhere how to actually compile a .go file. This is the program linked directly from the Go wiki for Windows Support, but all the tutorials talk about using 6g and gccgo etc. and none of those work on my windows machine. Actually, what I am trying to do is, I put my “hello.go” in src folder and after going to src folder I run the command “8g hello.go” in command prompt. But. it showing error “open a.go no such file or directory”. Can anybody help me by providing correct steps to compile a go program in Windows? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Navigate to your source code directory (for example, C:\Arpsss), display the current directory, and display the current directory contents.

C:\>cd C:\Arpssss
C:\Arpssss>cd
C:\Arpssss
C:\Arpssss>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Directory of C:\Arpssss
11/28/2011  10:26 AM    <DIR>          .
11/28/2011  10:26 AM    <DIR>          ..
11/28/2011  10:24 AM                73 hello.go
               1 File(s)             73 bytes
               2 Dir(s)   4,949,831,680 bytes free

Try to compile a non-existent file named a.go.

C:\Arpssss>8g a.go
open a.go: No such file or directory

This is the error you reported–you tried to compile a file named a.go that wasn’t in your current directory.

Compile, link, and run the hello.go Go source file in the current directory.

C:\Arpssss>8g hello.go
C:\Arpssss>8l -o hello.exe hello.8
C:\Arpssss>hello
Hello, World!

The hello.go program.

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello, World!")
}