go install command has errors

[marclundgren]

Hi,

Following the steps on OS X to install the project:

1. Open a terminal
2. Run go get -u go.coder.com/sshcode

I see the following errors: after sshcode fails to install

# go.coder.com/sshcode
../go/src/go.coder.com/sshcode/main.go:28:14: cannot use &rootCmd literal (type *rootCmd) as type cli.Command in argument to cli.RunRoot:
	*rootCmd does not implement cli.Command (wrong type for Run method)
		have Run(*flag.FlagSet)
		want Run(*pflag.FlagSet)
../go/src/go.coder.com/sshcode/main.go:31:5: cannot use new(rootCmd) (type *rootCmd) as type interface { RegisterFlags(*pflag.FlagSet); Run(*pflag.FlagSet); Spec() cli.CommandSpec } in assignment:
	*rootCmd does not implement interface { RegisterFlags(*pflag.FlagSet); Run(*pflag.FlagSet); Spec() cli.CommandSpec } (wrong type for RegisterFlags method)
		have RegisterFlags(*flag.FlagSet)
		want RegisterFlags(*pflag.FlagSet)

$ go version

go version go1.12.9 darwin/amd64

$ which sshcode

sshcode not found

[coadler]

This is most likely a versioning problem in your gopath since we just recently updated our cli package.

If you cd into $GOPATH/src/go.coder.com/sshcode and run GO111MODULE=on go install it should work.

[marclundgren]

My $GOPATH was empty ( sorry im new to go)

→ echo $GOPATH

So i put this on my shell profile

## go
## setup Workspaces https://golang.org/doc/code.html#Workspaces
export PATH=$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin
export GOPATH=$(go env GOPATH)

then

cd $GOPATH/src/go.coder.com/sshcode
GO111MODULE=on go install

GO111MODULE=on go install has no output, so I'm assuming it was successful.

Opening a new session and re-running go get -u go.coder.com/sshcode still gives me the same error 😕

Is there anything else I should do to set up a new GO env?

[marclundgren]

If this helps, here are the contents of the sshcode folder: ls $GOPATH/src/go.coder.com/sshcode

LICENSE         go.sum
README.md       main.go
ci              settings.go
demo.gif        sshcode.go
go.mod          sshcode_test.go

...and it's on the master branch with the latest commit

940305f     3 days ago Dean Sheather  Merge pull request #126 from SscSPs/master

[coadler]

If GO111MODULE=on go install exited without output it should have successfully been installed to $GOPATH/bin.

The reason this is necessary is because we use Go modules for our dependency management, which is enabled by explicitly setting GO111MODULE=on. The normal go get -u won't consult modules when looking for dependencies, which is why it's erroring.

I should probably update the documentation to reflect this. Thanks!

[coadler]

#138 should solve this since we were depending on an older version of https://github.com/cdr/cli

[marclundgren]

Voila

~ → go get -u go.coder.com/sshcode
 ~ → which sshcode
/usr/local/bin/sshcode

Thank you for the quick turn-around @coadler

[coadler]

Glad I could help