Cannot set $GOPATH on Mac OSX

Question

I\'m trying to set my $GOPATH variable to run some example code on my machine:

$ smitego-example go run main.go 
main.go:5:2: cannot find packag         


        

Answer 1

The http://www.golang-book.com/guides/machine_setup#osx

only has instructions for setting the path on ~/.bashrc, not ~/.bash_profile which thanks to this thread was able to get my example file to build.

export GOPATH=$HOME
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

Other Mac users need to add the above to their ~/.bash_profile.