The development of the language Go is going at a fast pace, hence an updated version of Super-short guide to gettinq q.

Get the latest version (called weekly) of Go:

  1. Get Go: hg clone -u release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ go Note the directory you have downloaded it to and set add its bin directory to your PATH: PATH=$PWD/go/bin.

  2. Update Go to the latest weekly: cd go; hg pull; hg update weekly

  3. Compile Go: cd src, you should now sit in go/src. And compile: ./all.bash

Install missing commands (gcc, sed, bison, etc.) if needed.

The latest Go is now installed. You should now have the go-tool, this is the central interface to all Go program building tasks.

$ go
Go is a tool for managing Go source code.

Usage: go command [arguments]

The commands are:

build       compile packages and dependencies
clean       remove object files
doc         run godoc on package sources
fix         run go tool fix on packages
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lost more

If you can not run go, check your PATH.

Install Go DNS and set GOPATH⌗

The GOPATH variable specifies (among things) where your Go code lives. Using the go tool does bring a few requirements to the table in how to layout the directory structure.

  1. Create toplevel directory (~/g) for your code: mkdir -p ~/g/src
  2. Set GOPATH to this toplevel directory: export GOPATH=~/g
  3. Get dns: cd ~/g/src; git clone git://github.com/miekg/dns.git
  4. Compile it: cd dns; go build
  5. Compile and install the examples, there is a helper Makefile here, but it just calls go multiple times: cd ex; make
  6. Look in $GOPATH/bin for the binaries, in this setup that will be ~/g/bin
  7. Query with q: ~/g/bin/q mx miek.nl (or add ~/g/bin to your $PATH too)
  8. Report bugs