Background
Yesterday found myself looking to evaluate software tools for an exercise.
GitHub
Through Google Search ended up at GitHub.
The specific tool is written in the Go Language.
Availing Go Language
MS Windows
My primary OS is MS Windows and so this post will focus on availing Go Runtime in MS Windows.
Outline
- MSI
- The installer is a full-blown installer.
- Archive
- The installer is a simple package that can be extracted.
- The Go runtime can be accessed through explicitly referencing the folder
Artifacts
The artifacts are available here.
Images
Image – Featured Downloads
Image – Stable Versions
Installing and Avail
MSI
Outline
- Setup Screen
- Destination Folder
- Installing
- Completed
Images
Image – Destination Folder
Image – Installing
Image – Completed
Archive
If you choose to go the Archive route, please use an un-archiver to extract files from the compressed file.
Outline
- bin
- Purpose
- Binary / Executable
- Files
- go.exe
- Purpose
- doc
- Purpose
- Documentation
- Purpose
- pck
- Purpose
- Tools
- Purpose
- src
- Purpose
- Source Code Files
- Purpose
Images
Image – Folder
Validate
To validate installation:-
MSI
- Start a new Command Shell
- Initiate GO
Syntax
go version
Sample
go version
Output
Output – Image
Output – Text
>go version go version go1.15 windows/amd64
Compressed
- Start a new Command Shell
- Reference Folder Go extracted into and Initiate bin\go.exe
Syntax
<folder>\bin\go.exe
Sample
C:\downloads\GoLanguage\v1.15\package\extract\go\bin\go.exe
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