Make Go executable work on Mac

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Make Go executable work on Mac

• Example repo: https://kevinschoon.github.io/pomo/

What we do

• add necessary folder to Path
• get the repo
• create executable file with Make
• copy executable to /usr/local/bin to let us it everwhere
• modify access with chmod
• run it

Prerequisites

Go and Make should be installed

Setup

• open Path with VS Code, Nano or your preferred text editor: code /etc/paths or nano /etc/paths

It should look like:

/usr/local/bin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin
/usr/local/sbin

• commands

git clone git@github.com:kevinschoon/pomo.git
cd pomo
make
// cd $GOPATH
cd ~/go/bin
sudo cp pomo /usr/local/bin/pomo
sudo chmod a+rx pomo
cd ~
pomo init
pomo start -t my-project "write some codes"