configuring golang gopath setup

Question

When I run my cat .bash_profile command via terminal the following message is displayed:

export GOPATH=c:/Users/Petey/Documents/go

I cd into the above, create a main.go and attempt to execute with go run main.go, but I receive this error. What am I doing incorrectly?

go: GOPATH entry is relative; must be absolute path: "c".

Which terminal are you using ? according to this question, it should be c:\Users\Petey\ instead of c:/Users/Petey/ — ymonad
– ymonad, Commented Sep 29, 2017 at 2:08
and don't forget to enclose with single quote (e.g export GOPATH='C:\Users\Petey'). — ymonad
– ymonad, Commented Sep 29, 2017 at 2:11
Peters-MacBook-Air:go Petey$ cat .bash_profile export GOPATH=c:\Users\Petey\Documents\go this is my bash profile pwd however, when I run a go file still the same error of path must be relative. — Devologist
– Devologist, Commented Sep 29, 2017 at 2:23
once you have a working GOPATH you may want its children dirs : pkg, src, bin as per golang.org/doc/code.html — John Scott Stensland
– John Scott Stensland, Commented Sep 29, 2017 at 2:32
So to be clear, you're not using Microsoft Windows but macOS? In that case I don't quite follow why you're using a Windows path starting with a drive letter? Also, since Go 1.8 the GOPATH is automatically set to $HOME/go, so you may not need to set it yourself at all! — Martin Tournoij
– Martin Tournoij, Commented Sep 29, 2017 at 20:53

user2775683 · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-29 02:46:35Z

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You should quote the path like so: export GOPATH="C:/Users/Petey/Documents/go"

Since it is Windows bash, you could also try: export GOPATH="/mnt/c/Users/Petey/Documents/go"

answered Sep 29, 2017 at 2:46

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