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by rmac 623 days ago
the whole gobin / gopath thing was annoying as a beginner: I just want to build this module and use that local module

go build ./... Goes where ?

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I believe it is recommended to not use gobin/gopath anymore.

go test ./… tests all files in the project, so I assume build does something similar.

My experience with go build ./... is that it compiles everything but it doesn't make the binaries.

> When compiling multiple packages or a single non-main package, build compiles the packages but discards the resulting object, serving only as a check that the packages can be built.

From https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/go#hdr-Compile_packages_and_dependenc...

A bit annoying when you want to build a bunch of executables, but it's not something I need often and it's easy to script.

  go build -o some/dir/ ./...
will actually output the binaries
Sick, I couldn't figure it out when I needed it so I just manually created a 20 line script to cd into each directory and go build.