Setup Tour of Go on Mac

SetupTourOfGoOnMac

/**
 * Setup Go on a Macbook to complete online Tour of Go locally http://tour.golang.org 
 *
 * Use Terminal program in Macbook to get a bash $ prompt 
 * Type the following:
 */

$ export GOPATH=$HOME/godev
$ echo “Creating Go Dev Environment at $GOPATH”
$ mkdir -p $GOPATH
$ cd $GOPATH
$ echo “Getting the Go Tour package”
$ go get code.google.com/p/go-tour/gotour
$ echo “Creating the mytour directory for writing samples.”
$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/mytour
$ cd $GOPATH/src/mytour


/**
 * Now create a slide1.go using Sublime or your favorite code editor. Save slide1.go in src/mytour 
 */

$ go run slide1.go


/** 
 * If you get error message go get code.google.com/p/go-tour/gotour go: missing Mercurial command. See http://golang.org/s       * gogetcmd package code.google.com/p/go-tour/gotour: exec: "hg": executable file not found in $PATH
 * 
 * Install Mercurial for your Mac 
 */ 
 
$ http://mercurial.selenic.com/downloads

$ export GOPATH=$HOME/godev
$ echo “Creating Go Dev Environment at $GOPATH”
$ mkdir -p $GOPATH
$ cd $GOPATH
$ echo “Getting the Gomobile tool for building and running mobile apps written in Go.”
$ go get golang.org/x/mobile/cmd/gomobile
$ echo “Creating the mygomobile directory for building.”
$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/mygomobile
$ cd $GOPATH/src/mygomobile