// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package help import "cmd/go/internal/base" var HelpC = &base.Command{ UsageLine: "c", Short: "calling between Go and C", Long: ` There are two different ways to call between Go and C/C++ code. The first is the cgo tool, which is part of the Go distribution. For information on how to use it see the cgo documentation (go doc cmd/cgo). The second is the SWIG program, which is a general tool for interfacing between languages. For information on SWIG see http://swig.org/. When running go build, any file with a .swig extension will be passed to SWIG. Any file with a .swigcxx extension will be passed to SWIG with the -c++ option. When either cgo or SWIG is used, go build will pass any .c, .m, .s, .S or .sx files to the C compiler, and any .cc, .cpp, .cxx files to the C++ compiler. The CC or CXX environment variables may be set to determine the C or C++ compiler, respectively, to use. `, } var HelpPackages = &base.Command{ UsageLine: "packages", Short: "package lists and patterns", Long: ` Many commands apply to a set of packages: go action [packages] Usually, [packages] is a list of import paths. An import path that is a rooted path or that begins with a . or .. element is interpreted as a file system path and denotes the package in that directory. Otherwise, the import path P denotes the package found in the directory DIR/src/P for some DIR listed in the GOPATH environment variable (For more details see: 'go help gopath'). If no import paths are given, the action applies to the package in the current directory. There are four reserved names for paths that should not be used for packages to be built with the go tool: - "main" denotes the top-level package in a stand-alone executable. - "all" expands to all packages found in all the GOPATH trees. For example, 'go list all' lists all the packages on the local system. When using modules, "all" expands to all packages in the main module and their dependencies, including dependencies needed by tests of any of those. - "std" is like all but expands to just the packages in the standard Go library. - "cmd" expands to the Go repository's commands and their internal libraries. Import paths beginning with "cmd/" only match source code in the Go repository. An import path is a pattern if it includes one or more "..." wildcards, each of which can match any string, including the empty string and strings containing slashes. Such a pattern expands to all package directories found in the GOPATH trees with names matching the patterns. To make common patterns more convenient, there are two special cases. First, /... at the end of the pattern can match an empty string, so that net/... matches both net and packages in its subdirectories, like net/http. Second, any slash-separated pattern element containing a wildcard never participates in a match of the "vendor" element in the path of a vendored package, so that ./... does not match packages in subdirectories of ./vendor or ./mycode/vendor, but ./vendor/... and ./mycode/vendor/... do. Note, however, that a directory named vendor that itself contains code is not a vendored package: cmd/vendor would be a command named vendor, and the pattern cmd/... matches it. See golang.org/s/go15vendor for more about vendoring. An import path can also name a package to be downloaded from a remote repository. Run 'go help importpath' for details. Every package in a program must have a unique import path. By convention, this is arranged by starting each path with a unique prefix that belongs to you. For example, paths used internally at Google all begin with 'google', and paths denoting remote repositories begin with the path to the code, such as 'github.com/user/repo'. Packages in a program need not have unique package names, but there are two reserved package names with special meaning. The name main indicates a command, not a library. Commands are built into binaries and cannot be imported. The name documentation indicates documentation for a non-Go program in the directory. Files in package documentation are ignored by the go command. As a special case, if the package list is a list of .go files from a single directory, the command is applied to a single synthesized package made up of exactly those files, ignoring any build constraints in those files and ignoring any other files in the directory. Directory and file names that begin with "." or "_" are ignored by the go tool, as are directories named "testdata". `, } var HelpImportPath = &base.Command{ UsageLine: "importpath", Short: "import path syntax", Long: ` An import path (see 'go help packages') denotes a package stored in the local file system. In general, an import path denotes either a standard package (such as "unicode/utf8") or a package found in one of the work spaces (For more details see: 'go help gopath'). Relative import paths An import path beginning with ./ or ../ is called a relative path. The toolchain supports relative import paths as a shortcut in two ways. First, a relative path can be used as a shorthand on the command line. If you are working in the directory containing the code imported as "unicode" and want to run the tests for "unicode/utf8", you can type "go test ./utf8" instead of needing to specify the full path. Similarly, in the reverse situation, "go test .." will test "unicode" from the "unicode/utf8" directory. Relative patterns are also allowed, like "go test ./..." to test all subdirectories. See 'go help packages' for details on the pattern syntax. Second, if you are compiling a Go program not in a work space, you can use a relative path in an import statement in that program to refer to nearby code also not in a work space. This makes it easy to experiment with small multipackage programs outside of the usual work spaces, but such programs cannot be installed with "go install" (there is no work space in which to install them), so they are rebuilt from scratch each time they are built. To avoid ambiguity, Go programs cannot use relative import paths within a work space. Remote import paths Certain import paths also describe how to obtain the source code for the package using a revision control system. A few common code hosting sites have special syntax: Bitbucket (Git, Mercurial) import "bitbucket.org/user/project" import "bitbucket.org/user/project/sub/directory" GitHub (Git) import "github.com/user/project" import "github.com/user/project/sub/directory" Launchpad (Bazaar) import "launchpad.net/project" import "launchpad.net/project/series" import "launchpad.net/project/series/sub/directory" import "launchpad.net/~user/project/branch" import "launchpad.net/~user/project/branch/sub/directory" IBM DevOps Services (Git) import "hub.jazz.net/git/user/project" import "hub.jazz.net/git/user/project/sub/directory" For code hosted on other servers, import paths may either be qualified with the version control type, or the go tool can dynamically fetch the import path over https/http and discover where the code resides from a tag in the HTML. To declare the code location, an import path of the form repository.vcs/path specifies the given repository, with or without the .vcs suffix, using the named version control system, and then the path inside that repository. The supported version control systems are: Bazaar .bzr Fossil .fossil Git .git Mercurial .hg Subversion .svn For example, import "example.org/user/foo.hg" denotes the root directory of the Mercurial repository at example.org/user/foo or foo.hg, and import "example.org/repo.git/foo/bar" denotes the foo/bar directory of the Git repository at example.org/repo or repo.git. When a version control system supports multiple protocols, each is tried in turn when downloading. For example, a Git download tries https://, then git+ssh://. By default, downloads are restricted to known secure protocols (e.g. https, ssh). To override this setting for Git downloads, the GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL environment variable can be set (For more details see: 'go help environment'). If the import path is not a known code hosting site and also lacks a version control qualifier, the go tool attempts to fetch the import over https/http and looks for a tag in the document's HTML
. The meta tag has the form: The import-prefix is the import path corresponding to the repository root. It must be a prefix or an exact match of the package being fetched with "go get". If it's not an exact match, another http request is made at the prefix to verify the tags match. The meta tag should appear as early in the file as possible. In particular, it should appear before any raw JavaScript or CSS, to avoid confusing the go command's restricted parser. The vcs is one of "bzr", "fossil", "git", "hg", "svn". The repo-root is the root of the version control system containing a scheme and not containing a .vcs qualifier. For example, import "example.org/pkg/foo" will result in the following requests: https://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1 (preferred) http://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1 (fallback, only with use of correctly set GOINSECURE) If that page contains the meta tag the go tool will verify that https://example.org/?go-get=1 contains the same meta tag and then git clone https://code.org/r/p/exproj into GOPATH/src/example.org. When using GOPATH, downloaded packages are written to the first directory listed in the GOPATH environment variable. (See 'go help gopath-get' and 'go help gopath'.) When using modules, downloaded packages are stored in the module cache. See https://golang.org/ref/mod#module-cache. When using modules, an additional variant of the go-import meta tag is recognized and is preferred over those listing version control systems. That variant uses "mod" as the vcs in the content value, as in: This tag means to fetch modules with paths beginning with example.org from the module proxy available at the URL https://code.org/moduleproxy. See https://golang.org/ref/mod#goproxy-protocol for details about the proxy protocol. Import path checking When the custom import path feature described above redirects to a known code hosting site, each of the resulting packages has two possible import paths, using the custom domain or the known hosting site. A package statement is said to have an "import comment" if it is immediately followed (before the next newline) by a comment of one of these two forms: package math // import "path" package math /* import "path" */ The go command will refuse to install a package with an import comment unless it is being referred to by that import path. In this way, import comments let package authors make sure the custom import path is used and not a direct path to the underlying code hosting site. Import path checking is disabled for code found within vendor trees. This makes it possible to copy code into alternate locations in vendor trees without needing to update import comments. Import path checking is also disabled when using modules. Import path comments are obsoleted by the go.mod file's module statement. See https://golang.org/s/go14customimport for details. `, } var HelpGopath = &base.Command{ UsageLine: "gopath", Short: "GOPATH environment variable", Long: ` The Go path is used to resolve import statements. It is implemented by and documented in the go/build package. The GOPATH environment variable lists places to look for Go code. On Unix, the value is a colon-separated string. On Windows, the value is a semicolon-separated string. On Plan 9, the value is a list. If the environment variable is unset, GOPATH defaults to a subdirectory named "go" in the user's home directory ($HOME/go on Unix, %USERPROFILE%\go on Windows), unless that directory holds a Go distribution. Run "go env GOPATH" to see the current GOPATH. See https://golang.org/wiki/SettingGOPATH to set a custom GOPATH. Each directory listed in GOPATH must have a prescribed structure: The src directory holds source code. The path below src determines the import path or executable name. The pkg directory holds installed package objects. As in the Go tree, each target operating system and architecture pair has its own subdirectory of pkg (pkg/GOOS_GOARCH). If DIR is a directory listed in the GOPATH, a package with source in DIR/src/foo/bar can be imported as "foo/bar" and has its compiled form installed to "DIR/pkg/GOOS_GOARCH/foo/bar.a". The bin directory holds compiled commands. Each command is named for its source directory, but only the final element, not the entire path. That is, the command with source in DIR/src/foo/quux is installed into DIR/bin/quux, not DIR/bin/foo/quux. The "foo/" prefix is stripped so that you can add DIR/bin to your PATH to get at the installed commands. If the GOBIN environment variable is set, commands are installed to the directory it names instead of DIR/bin. GOBIN must be an absolute path. Here's an example directory layout: GOPATH=/home/user/go /home/user/go/ src/ foo/ bar/ (go code in package bar) x.go quux/ (go code in package main) y.go bin/ quux (installed command) pkg/ linux_amd64/ foo/ bar.a (installed package object) Go searches each directory listed in GOPATH to find source code, but new packages are always downloaded into the first directory in the list. See https://golang.org/doc/code.html for an example. GOPATH and Modules When using modules, GOPATH is no longer used for resolving imports. However, it is still used to store downloaded source code (in GOPATH/pkg/mod) and compiled commands (in GOPATH/bin). Internal Directories Code in or below a directory named "internal" is importable only by code in the directory tree rooted at the parent of "internal". Here's an extended version of the directory layout above: /home/user/go/ src/ crash/ bang/ (go code in package bang) b.go foo/ (go code in package foo) f.go bar/ (go code in package bar) x.go internal/ baz/ (go code in package baz) z.go quux/ (go code in package main) y.go The code in z.go is imported as "foo/internal/baz", but that import statement can only appear in source files in the subtree rooted at foo. The source files foo/f.go, foo/bar/x.go, and foo/quux/y.go can all import "foo/internal/baz", but the source file crash/bang/b.go cannot. See https://golang.org/s/go14internal for details. Vendor Directories Go 1.6 includes support for using local copies of external dependencies to satisfy imports of those dependencies, often referred to as vendoring. Code below a directory named "vendor" is importable only by code in the directory tree rooted at the parent of "vendor", and only using an import path that omits the prefix up to and including the vendor element. Here's the example from the previous section, but with the "internal" directory renamed to "vendor" and a new foo/vendor/crash/bang directory added: /home/user/go/ src/ crash/ bang/ (go code in package bang) b.go foo/ (go code in package foo) f.go bar/ (go code in package bar) x.go vendor/ crash/ bang/ (go code in package bang) b.go baz/ (go code in package baz) z.go quux/ (go code in package main) y.go The same visibility rules apply as for internal, but the code in z.go is imported as "baz", not as "foo/vendor/baz". Code in vendor directories deeper in the source tree shadows code in higher directories. Within the subtree rooted at foo, an import of "crash/bang" resolves to "foo/vendor/crash/bang", not the top-level "crash/bang". Code in vendor directories is not subject to import path checking (see 'go help importpath'). When 'go get' checks out or updates a git repository, it now also updates submodules. Vendor directories do not affect the placement of new repositories being checked out for the first time by 'go get': those are always placed in the main GOPATH, never in a vendor subtree. See https://golang.org/s/go15vendor for details. `, } var HelpEnvironment = &base.Command{ UsageLine: "environment", Short: "environment variables", Long: ` The go command and the tools it invokes consult environment variables for configuration. If an environment variable is unset, the go command uses a sensible default setting. To see the effective setting of the variable