// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package main var helpC = &Command{ UsageLine: "c", Short: "calling between Go and C", Long: ` There are two different ways to call between Go and C/C++ code. The first is the cgo tool, which is part of the Go distribution. For information on how to use it see the cgo documentation (godoc cmd/cgo). The second is the SWIG program, which is a general tool for interfacing between languages. For information on SWIG see http://swig.org/. When running go build, any file with a .swig extension will be passed to SWIG. Any file with a .swigcxx extension will be passed to SWIG with the -c++ option. When either cgo or SWIG is used, go build will pass any .c, .m, .s, or .S files to the C compiler, and any .cc, .cpp, .cxx files to the C++ compiler. The CC or CXX environment variables may be set to determine the C or C++ compiler, respectively, to use. `, } var helpPackages = &Command{ UsageLine: "packages", Short: "description of package lists", Long: ` Many commands apply to a set of packages: go action [packages] Usually, [packages] is a list of import paths. An import path that is a rooted path or that begins with a . or .. element is interpreted as a file system path and denotes the package in that directory. Otherwise, the import path P denotes the package found in the directory DIR/src/P for some DIR listed in the GOPATH environment variable (see 'go help gopath'). If no import paths are given, the action applies to the package in the current directory. There are three reserved names for paths that should not be used for packages to be built with the go tool: - "main" denotes the top-level package in a stand-alone executable. - "all" expands to all package directories found in all the GOPATH trees. For example, 'go list all' lists all the packages on the local system. - "std" is like all but expands to just the packages in the standard Go library. An import path is a pattern if it includes one or more "..." wildcards, each of which can match any string, including the empty string and strings containing slashes. Such a pattern expands to all package directories found in the GOPATH trees with names matching the patterns. As a special case, x/... matches x as well as x's subdirectories. For example, net/... expands to net and packages in its subdirectories. An import path can also name a package to be downloaded from a remote repository. Run 'go help importpath' for details. Every package in a program must have a unique import path. By convention, this is arranged by starting each path with a unique prefix that belongs to you. For example, paths used internally at Google all begin with 'google', and paths denoting remote repositories begin with the path to the code, such as 'code.google.com/p/project'. As a special case, if the package list is a list of .go files from a single directory, the command is applied to a single synthesized package made up of exactly those files, ignoring any build constraints in those files and ignoring any other files in the directory. File names that begin with "." or "_" are ignored by the go tool. `, } var helpImportPath = &Command{ UsageLine: "importpath", Short: "import path syntax", Long: ` An import path (see 'go help packages') denotes a package stored in the local file system. In general, an import path denotes either a standard package (such as "unicode/utf8") or a package found in one of the work spaces (see 'go help gopath'). Relative import paths An import path beginning with ./ or ../ is called a relative path. The toolchain supports relative import paths as a shortcut in two ways. First, a relative path can be used as a shorthand on the command line. If you are working in the directory containing the code imported as "unicode" and want to run the tests for "unicode/utf8", you can type "go test ./utf8" instead of needing to specify the full path. Similarly, in the reverse situation, "go test .." will test "unicode" from the "unicode/utf8" directory. Relative patterns are also allowed, like "go test ./..." to test all subdirectories. See 'go help packages' for details on the pattern syntax. Second, if you are compiling a Go program not in a work space, you can use a relative path in an import statement in that program to refer to nearby code also not in a work space. This makes it easy to experiment with small multipackage programs outside of the usual work spaces, but such programs cannot be installed with "go install" (there is no work space in which to install them), so they are rebuilt from scratch each time they are built. To avoid ambiguity, Go programs cannot use relative import paths within a work space. Remote import paths Certain import paths also describe how to obtain the source code for the package using a revision control system. A few common code hosting sites have special syntax: Bitbucket (Git, Mercurial) import "bitbucket.org/user/project" import "bitbucket.org/user/project/sub/directory" GitHub (Git) import "github.com/user/project" import "github.com/user/project/sub/directory" Google Code Project Hosting (Git, Mercurial, Subversion) import "code.google.com/p/project" import "code.google.com/p/project/sub/directory" import "code.google.com/p/project.subrepository" import "code.google.com/p/project.subrepository/sub/directory" Launchpad (Bazaar) import "launchpad.net/project" import "launchpad.net/project/series" import "launchpad.net/project/series/sub/directory" import "launchpad.net/~user/project/branch" import "launchpad.net/~user/project/branch/sub/directory" For code hosted on other servers, import paths may either be qualified with the version control type, or the go tool can dynamically fetch the import path over https/http and discover where the code resides from a tag in the HTML. To declare the code location, an import path of the form repository.vcs/path specifies the given repository, with or without the .vcs suffix, using the named version control system, and then the path inside that repository. The supported version control systems are: Bazaar .bzr Git .git Mercurial .hg Subversion .svn For example, import "example.org/user/foo.hg" denotes the root directory of the Mercurial repository at example.org/user/foo or foo.hg, and import "example.org/repo.git/foo/bar" denotes the foo/bar directory of the Git repository at example.org/repo or repo.git. When a version control system supports multiple protocols, each is tried in turn when downloading. For example, a Git download tries git://, then https://, then http://. If the import path is not a known code hosting site and also lacks a version control qualifier, the go tool attempts to fetch the import over https/http and looks for a tag in the document's HTML . The meta tag has the form: The import-prefix is the import path corresponding to the repository root. It must be a prefix or an exact match of the package being fetched with "go get". If it's not an exact match, another http request is made at the prefix to verify the tags match. The vcs is one of "git", "hg", "svn", etc, The repo-root is the root of the version control system containing a scheme and not containing a .vcs qualifier. For example, import "example.org/pkg/foo" will result in the following request(s): https://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1 (preferred) http://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1 (fallback) If that page contains the meta tag the go tool will verify that https://example.org/?go-get=1 contains the same meta tag and then git clone https://code.org/r/p/exproj into GOPATH/src/example.org. New downloaded packages are written to the first directory listed in the GOPATH environment variable (see 'go help gopath'). The go command attempts to download the version of the package appropriate for the Go release being used. Run 'go help install' for more. `, } var helpGopath = &Command{ UsageLine: "gopath", Short: "GOPATH environment variable", Long: ` The Go path is used to resolve import statements. It is implemented by and documented in the go/build package. The GOPATH environment variable lists places to look for Go code. On Unix, the value is a colon-separated string. On Windows, the value is a semicolon-separated string. On Plan 9, the value is a list. GOPATH must be set to get, build and install packages outside the standard Go tree. Each directory listed in GOPATH must have a prescribed structure: The src/ directory holds source code. The path below 'src' determines the import path or executable name. The pkg/ directory holds installed package objects. As in the Go tree, each target operating system and architecture pair has its own subdirectory of pkg (pkg/GOOS_GOARCH). If DIR is a directory listed in the GOPATH, a package with source in DIR/src/foo/bar can be imported as "foo/bar" and has its compiled form installed to "DIR/pkg/GOOS_GOARCH/foo/bar.a". The bin/ directory holds compiled commands. Each command is named for its source directory, but only the final element, not the entire path. That is, the command with source in DIR/src/foo/quux is installed into DIR/bin/quux, not DIR/bin/foo/quux. The foo/ is stripped so that you can add DIR/bin to your PATH to get at the installed commands. If the GOBIN environment variable is set, commands are installed to the directory it names instead of DIR/bin. Here's an example directory layout: GOPATH=/home/user/gocode /home/user/gocode/ src/ foo/ bar/ (go code in package bar) x.go quux/ (go code in package main) y.go bin/ quux (installed command) pkg/ linux_amd64/ foo/ bar.a (installed package object) Go searches each directory listed in GOPATH to find source code, but new packages are always downloaded into the first directory in the list. `, } var helpFileType = &Command{ UsageLine: "filetype", Short: "file types", Long: ` The go command examines the contents of a restricted set of files in each directory. It identifies which files to examine based on the extension of the file name. These extensions are: .go Go source files. .c, .h C source files. If the package uses cgo, these will be compiled with the OS-native compiler (typically gcc); otherwise they will be compiled with the Go-specific support compiler, 5c, 6c, or 8c, etc. as appropriate. .cc, .cpp, .cxx, .hh, .hpp, .hxx C++ source files. Only useful with cgo or SWIG, and always compiled with the OS-native compiler. .m Objective-C source files. Only useful with cgo, and always compiled with the OS-native compiler. .s, .S Assembler source files. If the package uses cgo, these will be assembled with the OS-native assembler (typically gcc (sic)); otherwise they will be assembled with the Go-specific support assembler, 5a, 6a, or 8a, etc., as appropriate. .swig, .swigcxx SWIG definition files. .syso System object files. Files of each of these types except .syso may contain build constraints, but the go command stops scanning for build constraints at the first item in the file that is not a blank line or //-style line comment. `, }