Development setup
The layout of the Fuchsia checkout is not compatible out-of-the-box with
standard Go tooling like go test and gopls (the Go language server).
To set up your workspace for compatibility with Go tooling, run fx setup-go.
This will create all of the symlinks and other files necessary for Go tooling
and to work and be compatible with IDEs.
Note that this is only necessary if you care about IDE features and/or running
go commands directly. If you're happy without IDE features and with using fx
set, fx build, and fx test to work with Go, feel free to skip this setup.
Editor configuration
Your editor needs to be configured to properly use Fuchsia-vendored Go build
tooling. In particular:
- The GOROOT needs to be set to the Fuchsia-aware GOROOT (likely to be
$FUCHSIA_DIR/out/default/host-tools/goroot, though make sure to substitute
$FUCHSIA_DIR for the actual path and out/default for the GN out directory
you are using).
- "fuchsia" needs to be added to the go build tags.