Need help on installing go for The Plan 9 Operating system.

[ROuNIN]

Hello all,
I would like someone to advise on what needs to be done to install
Google Go on The Plan 9 Operating System.

Ron and Russ, can you please help?
Many thanks,
ROuNIN

[ron minnich]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:09 PM, ROuNIN <rounin....@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I would like someone to advise on what needs to be done to install
> Google Go on The Plan 9 Operating System.
>
> Ron and Russ, can you please help?

I'm useless, not having done it, sorry.

ron

[ROuNIN]

Thanks for the quick reply Ron!
I've searched for ages on the net but can't find any info.

So far have the following (with the aid of)
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Sources_repository/index.html

mount to 9fs sources:

9fs sources
ls /n/sources

So you can see the contrib/ directory:
contrib/ - Contrib directories for contributed code

Then at:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Contrib_index/index.html

Then I get stuck at being able to obtain Mercurial from FGB's contrib
area:

hg: Mercurial 1.0.2

ROuNIN

[ron minnich]

move this to 9fans I think. I doubt golang cares all that much :-)

ron

[andrey mirtchovski]

The plan9 go port is cross-compilation only. If you install all the
changes needed for it you'll be able to compile go into binaries that
will run on Plan9, but a large part of the OS support is still to be
completed (things like network access, namespace manipulation, stuff
from the "os" package).

At this point I don't think there is a native Go for Plan 9. If you're
looking to help finish it, ask the person who submits the P9 patches
for what help they need.

andrey

[paulzhol]

Hi!
I submitted os and syscall support at
http://codereview.appspot.com/3816043/.
It is still pending review by Russ, so use with care.

Andrey is correct about cross compiling, also don't
forget linking with symbols stripped (8l -s).

I think they did a port of the compiler about
a year ago to run nativly. I haven't looked into bringing
it up to speed.

Pavel