Setting GOPATH equal to my desired Go directory

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Hello, I’m currently setting up Golang for my machine because I’m taking a Go course. The part I’m having trouble with is setting GOPATH equal to where I want my Go directory to be at (which is within a Projects subdirectory). I’m on a Mac/Unix for reference. I’ve tried editing both .bash_profile and .bashrc to read

export GOPATH=“/filepath”

I’ve even tried placing the line inside of a zsh file. None seem to work for me. I wonder if maybe I am editing them under the wrong parent directory. When I do go env it still has GOPATH under the location where I installed Golang.

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I think going through this link will help.

Basically you need to put this line in .bashrc

export GOPATH=$(go env GOPATH)

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Have you restarted your shell after you changed your RC files?

In general though I’d strongly suggest to not care for GOPATH projects anymore. Only use go modules.

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GOPATH can set many dir, example export GOPATH="/root/go:/data/go" in linux /etc/profile.

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Thanks, my Instructor told me that as well.

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I still had no luck setting GOPATH = to my go workspace.
I guess it will not be needed for Go Modules?

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GOPATH is mostly for legacy projects and to go install binaries.

To go build within a go module, the GOPATH is not necessary.

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