GOPATH error in windows “GOPATH entry is relative; must be absolute path: ”

Question

I am new to GO and getting an error when initializing GOPATH in windows. In my project folder is

C:\\Users\\kamin\\Documents\\pm-manager

and i am try to set

Answer 1

As alternative you can set it to %USERPROFILE%\ under Windows 10

Answer 2

I encountered the same problem. My go version is go1.9.1 windows/amd64. However I fixed the problem by deleting the simucolon end of the GOPATH.

Answer 3

Adding one more error case that I experienced, was a silly-silly mistake in setting the GOPATH.

I added : D\Go (Forgot to added the colons after Drive letter). Correct should have been D:\Go, Offcourse this resolved the error.

Answer 4

you can put this case uses cygwin this go path

export GOPATH='c:\folder\folder\folder\'

for cygwin is necessary in string 'c:\path'

normaly you try use /cygdrive/.../...

but for GO is not possible ( need c:\ or other drive )

Answer 5

Ran into same problem. Fix is quite simple: just specify the drive in front of the entire path name. The issue occurred because I was following the instructions on Go "Getting Started" page and set GOPATH=%HOMEPATH%\Work . The problem was that %HOMEPATH% was defined as a relative path (\Users\MyName), and so GOPATH now pointed to \Users\MyName\Work . All I needed to do was set GOPATH=c:\Users\MyName\Work and the error goes away.