go install does not recognize “-o” flag

Question

I\'m trying to do a go install and rename the output with the -o flag.

go install -o bar.exe src/foo.go

But this fai

Answer 1

go build accepts the -o flag but go install does not.

go install will always output to $GOPATH/bin

If you want to install a custom binary name to your gopath you can do go build -o $GOPATH/bin/whatever and that will be roughly equivalent to go install