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

1. MSI
   • The installer is a full-blown installer.
2. 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

1. 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

1. bin
   • Purpose
     • Binary / Executable
   • Files
     • go.exe
2. doc
   • Purpose
     • Documentation
3. pck
   • Purpose
     • Tools
4. src
   • Purpose
     • Source Code Files

Images

Image – Folder

Validate

To validate installation:-

MSI

1. Start a new Command Shell
2. Initiate GO

 

Syntax

go version

Sample

go version

Output

Output – Image

Output – Text

>go version
go version go1.15 windows/amd64

Compressed

1. Start a new Command Shell
2. 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