The GOPATH
environment variable specifies the location of your workspace. If no GOPATH
is set, it is assumed to be $HOME/go
on Unix systems and %USERPROFILE%\go
on Windows. If you want to use a custom location as your workspace, you can set the GOPATH
environment variable. This page explains how to set this variable on various platforms.
GOPATH
can be any directory on your system. In Unix examples, we will set it to $HOME/go
(the default since Go 1.8). Note that GOPATH
must not be the same path as your Go installation. Another common setup is to set GOPATH=$HOME
.
go env -w GOPATH=$HOME/go
Edit your ~/.bash_profile
to add the following line:
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
Save and exit your editor. Then, source your ~/.bash_profile
.
source ~/.bash_profile
Edit your ~/.zshrc
file to add the following line:
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
Save and exit your editor. Then, source your ~/.zshrc
.
source ~/.zshrc
set -x -U GOPATH $HOME/go
The -x
is used to specify that this variable should be exported and the -U
makes this a universal variable, available to all sessions and persistent.
Your workspace can be located wherever you like, but we'll use C:\go-work
in this example.
NOTE: GOPATH
must not be the same path as your Go installation.
C:\go-work
.GOPATH
into the “Variable name” field.C:\go-work
into the “Variable value” field.Win
+ r
then type cmd
) or a powershell window (Win
+ i
).go env -w GOPATH=c:\go-work
.There is a faster way to edit Environment Variables
via search:
env
or environment
.Win
+ r
then type cmd
) or a powershell window (Win
+ i
).setx GOPATH %USERPROFILE%\go
. (This will set the GOPATH
to your [home folder]\go
, such as C:\Users\yourusername\go
.)