Local Environment Setup

* If you are still willing to set up your environment for Go programming language, you need the following software available on your computer:

- A text editor

- Go compiler

The source code written in source file is the human readable source for your program. It needs to be compiled and turned into machine language so that your CPU can actually execute the program as per the instructions given. The Go programming language compiler compiles the source code into its final executable program.

Go distribution comes as a binary installable for FreeBSD(release 8 and above), Linux, Mac OS X(Snow Leopard and above), and Windows operating systems with 32-bit(386) and 64-bit(amd64) x86 processor architectures.

The following section explains how to install Go binary distribution on various OS.

- Download Go Archive

Download the latest version of Go installable archive file from Go Downloads. The following version is used in this tutorial: go1.4.windows-and64.msi.

it is copied it into C:\>go folder.

Installation on UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X, and FreeBSD

Extract the download archive into the folder /usr/local, createing a Go tree in

/usr/local/go. For example:

tar -C /user/local -xzf go1.4.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Add /usr/local/go/bin to the PATH environment variable.

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin