go install
You can install Go command-line applications using the go install
command. This command is a powerful tool that’s provided (among the many) by the Go toolchain to compile and install Go applications in your workspace’s bin directory. This allows you to run your applications globally from any terminal window. To install a Go application, you can simply navigate to the project’s root directory and run go install
.
This command considers cross-platform compilation by providing the GOOS
flag, where you can specify which operating system to target, as well as the GOARCH
flag, where you can specify the underlying architecture to target.
An example of a common Go package that you can use to generate command-line interfaces in Go is the cobra
package. This is also a tool you can use to bootstrap application scaffolding to rapidly develop Cobra-based applications if you would like to dive further into developing your programming in terms of command-line...