USB Portable Compiler

[xtia...@gmail.com]

I searched the forum but was unable to locate an answer to my question.  Perhaps this was due to me not typing the correct terms and for which I apologize.

Question:  Is there a way to create a portable (i.e. in a USB) Golang development environment? If possible, I would like to create a USB Golang development environment so I can write some code and compile it while away from home. The goal is to continue learning Go and eventually create some GUI apps.  Thanks in advance.

[Geoffrey Teale]

Hi,

The simplest way I can think of is to run Ubuntu on a USB stick and install your go development tools there.

This is a well supported use case for Ubuntu already.

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Geoff Teale

On 25 February 2015 at 06:46, <xtia...@gmail.com> wrote:

I searched the forum but was unable to locate an answer to my question.  Perhaps this was due to me not typing the correct terms and for which I apologize.

Question:  Is there a way to create a portable (i.e. in a USB) Golang development environment? If possible, I would like to create a USB Golang development environment so I can write some code and compile it while away from home. The goal is to continue learning Go and eventually create some GUI apps.  Thanks in advance.

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[Daniel Theophanes]

You can create a portable go development environment.  To do so, copy the go tool chain onto the USB stick. then create a bash or batch script (depending on your OS) that setup the following environment variables: GOPATH, GOROOT, and includes the go command in the PATH. (Normally you SHOULDN'T set GOROOT, but this would be the exception to the rule).

-Daniel

[Joseph Spurrier]

If you are using Windows, take a look at how I wrote the batch scripts for my portable Windows dev environment: https://github.com/josephspurrier/golang-portable-windows