InstallFromSource

Introduction

This is a companion to http://golang.org/doc/install/source providing additional instructions for various operating systems.

Install C tools

On OS X, a C compiler is bundled in the command line tools for Xcode, and you don't need to install the whole Xcode to compile Go. If you have already installed Xcode 4.3+, you can install command line tools from the Components tab of the Downloads preferences panel. In more recent versions of Xcode, you can use xcode-select --install command to install the command line tools without opening Xcode. To verify you have a working compiler, just invoke gcc in a freshly created Terminal window, unless you see the "gcc: command not found" error, you are ready to go.

On Ubuntu/Debian, use sudo apt-get install gcc libc6-dev. If you want to build 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system you'll also need the libc6-dev-i386 package.

On RedHat/Centos 6, use sudo yum install gcc glibc-devel. If you want to build 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system you'll need both glibc-devel.i386 and glibc-devel.x86_64 packages.

On Windows, install gcc with TDM-GCC. (Make sure you add its bin subdirectory to your PATH.) Go does not support the Cygwin toolchain.

Easy build from source

Use dotsoftware to build Go from source in few minutes, just copy and paste the following code in your terminal

# get latest .software
cd
git clone https://github.com/fibo/.software.git
# source it in your profile and in current session
[ -f ~/.bash_profile ] && grep 'source ~/.software/etc/profile' ~/.bash_profile || echo 'source  /.software/etc/profile' >> ~/.bash_profile && source ~/.software/etc/profile
# build Golang
.software_install Golang
# you are done!