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

You can fake the -o flag, if all you care about is the location, and not the name of the binary. Define GOBIN for the install command:

GOBIN=`readlink -f my/location` go install some/persons/go-package

Caveat: This doesn't work for cross-compiled binaries.

Answer 2

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