Download initial Windows port of go here

[Hector]

http://code.google.com/p/go-windows/

It's a bit rough and doesn't have all the packages you'd expect but it
can at least run the examples in the go tutorial. Better than nothing
and should provide hours of fun.

[Sylvain]

Great work !
Just tested "sieve.go" and it works fine.

[David Anderson]

Nice work!

I suggest that you start submitting your patches for review back to
the Go mainline sooner rather than later, so that the task of
integrating your contributions doesn't become too huge. It'll also get
the attention of the Go developers on your code, which may lead to
some improvements/tweaks that will be harder to make later.

- Dave

[Hector Chu]

I will definitely try to get my work into the main Go repository over
the next few weeks so a solid base is available for further Windows
development work. I know the task will be lengthy and won't be easy
so I will concentrate on this before doing any further work.

2009/11/23 David Anderson <da...@natulte.net>:

[Dimiter "malkia" Stanev]

Thanks a lot, Hector!

[Edward Marshall]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Hector <hect...@gmail.com> wrote:

It's a bit rough and doesn't have all the packages you'd expect but it
can at least run the examples in the go tutorial.  Better than nothing
and should provide hours of fun.

This should be painfully obvious, but since I got tripped up by it because I wasn't thinking clearly, I'll mention it for others: GOROOT needs to be set to a Windows path, not a Cygwin path. (This is a mingw application, after all.)

So, instead of:

GOROOT=/home/esm/go

It should be:

GOROOT=C:\\cygwin\\home\\esm\\go

Great work, Hector!

--
Ed Marshall <e...@logic.net>
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
http://esm.logic.net/

[Ali Collins]

Please excuse the newbie question, but could someone do a step by step
- I want to have a play with this but can't get it working, and want
to see whether there's a problem (using a work PC with some limits on
it!) or whether I've made a mistake somewhere along the way.

Thanks, Ali.

[Hector]

What are the symptoms of the problem?

On Nov 24, 11:26 am, Ali Collins <alistaircollin...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

[Andre]

Looks good Hector.
Could you explain how do you port it?

[Ganesh]

Hi Hector

I also downloaded the zip file from http://go-windows.googlecode.com/files/go-1.zip

It would be great if you can give a step-by-step example to let users
know how to get it working.

----
D:\Tools\go\bin>cat first.go
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Printf("hello, world\n")
}

D:\Tools\go\bin>8c.exe first.go
first.go:1 not a function
first.go:1 syntax error, last name: main

----

I am absolute newbie to Go and I have only Windows installed now. Can
you please help me how to get this hello program working?

Thanks!

Ganesh

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>
> - Show quoted text -

[Rob 'Commander' Pike]

On 17/12/2009, at 8:09 PM, Ganesh wrote:

> Hi Hector
>
> I also downloaded the zip file from http://go-windows.googlecode.com/files/go-1.zip
>
> It would be great if you can give a step-by-step example to let users
> know how to get it working.
>
> ----
> D:\Tools\go\bin>cat first.go
> package main
>
> import "fmt"
>
> func main() {
> fmt.Printf("hello, world\n")
> }
>
> D:\Tools\go\bin>8c.exe first.go
> first.go:1 not a function
> first.go:1 syntax error, last name: main
>
> ----
>
> I am absolute newbie to Go and I have only Windows installed now. Can
> you please help me how to get this hello program working?

I don't know much about the windows port but: 8g is the Go compiler.
8c is the C compiler. You're running the wrong compiler.

-rob

[abiosoft]

I've tried it and it's working pretty fine.

Can some please write the windows .bat equivalent of MakeGo for me.

And how can one add more packages to this go-windows?

[abiosoft]

all you have to do is set these three environment variables

GOROOT = <the extracted go folder>
GOARCH = 386
GOOS = mingw

and you may add <the extracted go folder>\bin to your PATH for easy
access through command prompt.

On Dec 17, 10:09 am, Ganesh <sggan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Hector
>

> I also downloaded the zip file fromhttp://go-windows.googlecode.com/files/go-1.zip