An experimental port of Go is available for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system.
The Plan 9 port of Go is available for the following architectures:
The current Go distribution has been tested successfully on:
Go on Plan 9 requires a kernel providing the following system calls:
A fix to the pread system call is required, so pread will not update the channel offset when reading a file:
The TCP connection control file must handle the “close” message to be able close a TCP connection gracefully, while waking up the readers:
A fix to Fossil is required to increment Qid.vers after a wstat, so a truncate followed by a read will return the content of the new file instead of the cached content.
You will need support for SHA-2 signatures in X.509 certificates, so you could download sources from repositories hosted on GoogleSource, GitHub and so on.
If you‘re running Plan 9 on Raspberry Pi, you’ll require the latest bcm kernel from Richard Miller.
CA certificates for crypto/x509 package needs to be installed at /sys/lib/tls/ca.pem. You can download it from https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem or copy from another system.
For 9front, you may need to configure loopback addresses for standard library tests:
ip/ipconfig -P loopback /dev/null 127.1 ip/ipconfig -P loopback /dev/null ::1
Since Go is written in Go, you may want to bootstrap Go with Go 1.4.3, which is the latest release of Go written in C.
However, since the Go 1.4 runtime wasn't mature enough on Plan 9, we recommend you to bootstrap from a more recent version of Go, using another operating system.
First, install Go 1.4:
cd /tmp git clone -b go1.4.3 https://go.googlesource.com/go go1.4 cd go1.4/src hget http://9legacy.org/go/patch/syscall-exec.diff | ape/patch -p2 make.rc
The syscall-exec patch is required if you're running a machine with SMP enabled.
Then, set the GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP environment variable:
GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=/tmp/go1.4
Finally, install the latest version of Go:
cd /tmp git clone https://go.googlesource.com/go cd go/src all.rc bind -a /tmp/go/bin /bin
Go is now ready to use.
First, you must have installed Go on this operating system, following the Go installation instructions.
Then, you can cross-compile a Go toolchain for Plan 9:
cd $GOROOT/src GOOS=plan9 GOARCH=386 ./bootstrap.bash
Then, the bootstrap toolchain will be available in ../../go-plan9-386-bootstrap.tbz.
Finally, you can extract this archive to your Plan 9 machine.
For example:
cd /tmp tar xzf go-plan9-386-bootstrap.tbz bind -a /tmp/go-plan9-386-bootstrap/bin /bin
Go is now ready to use.
You'll be able to use this installation of Go to bootstrap future Go releases, by setting the GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP environment variable:
GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=/tmp/go-plan9-386-bootstrap
A binary package for plan9/386 is available.
This binary package is used to bootstrap Go on the plan9/386 builder.
cd /tmp hget -o gobootstrap-plan9-386.tar.gz https://storage.googleapis.com/go-builder-data/gobootstrap-plan9-386.tar.gz mkdir gobootstrap-plan9-386 cd gobootstrap-plan9-386 tar xzf ../gobootstrap-plan9-386.tar.gz
You'll be able to use this binary package of Go to bootstrap Go, by setting the GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP environment variable:
GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=/tmp/gobootstrap-plan9-386
Other binary packages are available here and here.
Git is not available on Plan 9. However a Git wrapper is available as a simple rc script. It includes everything you need to use the go tool.
Three Plan 9 builders are currently running and reporting the results to the Go Dashboard:
The Plan 9 port of Go is considered experimental and is still a work-in-progress. There is a number of known issues available on the Go issue tracker.
Many issues are currently open on the Go issue tracker with the OS-Plan9 label.
The Plan 9 port of Go is a community-driven port. Any help to improve the Go port on Plan 9 would be highly appreciated.
Many people have contributed to the Plan 9 port of Go. Since December 2013, the Plan 9 port of Go is maintained by David du Colombier.
Many parts of Go are directly influenced by the Plan 9 system, as two of its three main designers worked on Plan 9 at Bell labs. Some of these connections are: