If you're having issues with gopls, please see the troubleshooting guide.
The following is the list of editors with known integrations for gopls.
If you use gopls with an editor that is not on this list, please let us know by filing an issue or modifying this documentation.
Learn more at the following pages:
For the most part, you should not need to install or update gopls. Your editor should handle that step for you.
If you do want to get the latest stable version of gopls, change to any directory that is both outside of your GOPATH and outside of a module (a temp directory is fine), and run
go get golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest
Do not use the -u flag, as it will update your dependencies to incompatible versions.
To get a specific version of gopls (for example, to test a prerelease version), run:
go get golang.org/x/tools/gopls@vX.Y.Z
Where vX.Y.Z is the desired version.
If you see this error:
$ go get golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest go: cannot use path@version syntax in GOPATH mode
then run
GO111MODULE=on go get golang.org/x/tools/gopls@latest
go get doesn't honor the replace directive in the go.mod of gopls when you are outside of the gopls module, so a simple go get with @master could fail. To actually update your gopls to the latest unstable version, use:
go get golang.org/x/tools/gopls@master golang.org/x/tools@master
In general, you should use @latest instead, to prevent frequent breakages.
gopls follows the Go Release Policy, meaning that it officially supports the last 2 major Go releases. We run CI to verify that the gopls tests pass for the last 4 major Go releases, but do not prioritize issues only affecting legacy Go release (3 or 4 releases ago).
These are often inherited from the editor that launches gopls, and sometimes the editor has a way to add or replace values before launching. For example, VSCode allows you to configure go.toolsEnvVars.
Configuring your environment correctly is important, as gopls relies on the go command.
See the command-line page for more information about the flags you might specify. All editors support some way of adding flags to gopls, for the most part you should not need to do this unless you have very unusual requirements or are trying to troubleshoot gopls behavior.
For the most part these will be settings that control how the editor interacts with or uses the results of gopls, not modifications to gopls itself. This means they are not standardized across editors, and you will have to look at the specific instructions for your editor integration to change them.
This is one of the most important pieces of configuration. It is the set of folders that gopls considers to be “roots” that it should consider files to be a part of.
If you are using modules there should be one of these per go.mod that you are working on. If you do not open the right folders, very little will work. This is the most common misconfiguration of gopls that we see.
There should be a way of declaring global settings for gopls inside the editor. The settings block will be called "gopls" and contains a collection of controls for gopls that the editor is not expected to understand or control.
In VSCode, this would be a section in your settings file that might look like this:
"gopls": { "usePlaceholders": true, "completeUnimported": true },
See Settings for more information about the available configurations.
This contains exactly the same set of values that are in the global configuration, but it is fetched for every workspace folder separately. The editor can choose to respond with different values per-folder.
If you are working on the Go project itself, your go command will have to correspond to the version of the source you are working on. That is, if you have downloaded the code to $HOME/go, your go command should be the $HOME/go/bin/go executable that you built with make.bash or equivalent.
You can achieve this by adding the right version of go to your PATH (export PATH=$HOME/go/bin:$PATH on Unix systems) or by configuring your editor. In VS Code, you can use the go.alternateTools setting to point to the correct version of go:
{ "go.alternateTools": { "go": "$HOME/bin/go" } }