This is my first post on here. I am not exactly sure where to post this but here goes …
I installed Go on Windows 7 Pro 64 using the installer: go1.10.3.windows-amd64.msi
The installer created 2 environment variables:
User level variable: GOPATH
System level variable: GOROOT
The GOPATH environment variable (according to the “Getting Started” documentation) is the path to your workspace. I changed this because I have my source in another location.
The GOROOT environment variable is set to the installation directory for Go; in my case this is “c:\Go”
The installer added the path to the Go binary directory to the PATH environment variable as this:
No %GOPATH%\bin is correct. When you install packages you have written or used go get to retrieve from a repo, they will be installed in GOPATH\bin and GOPATH\src, the environment needs to know where to find these. It always checks GOROOT\bin first without the need of it being specified.
What the install instructions are missing is the need for a complete logout of Windows - otherwise the system level GOROOT variable will not be recognized.
