When you want to test out the latest development version of Go, the developers of Go created a nice command to get it
installed and to keep it updated. The command is called gotip
and
is of course written in Go.
To install it, it's just a plain Go binary you can install:
$ go get golang.org/dl/gotip
After you downloaded the binary, you need to compile/download the latest version of Go:
$ gotip download Cloning into '/Users/pclaerhout/sdk/gotip'... remote: Counting objects: 9883, done remote: Finding sources: 100% (9883/9883) remote: Total 9883 (delta 1330), reused 6560 (delta 1330) Receiving objects: 100% (9883/9883), 23.58 MiB | 10.57 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (1330/1330), done. Updating files: 100% (9074/9074), done. Updating the go development tree... From https://go.googlesource.com/go * branch master -> FETCH_HEAD HEAD is now at 53f2747 syscall, internal/syscall/windows: remove utf16PtrToString parameter Building Go cmd/dist using /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.14.2/libexec. (go1.14.2 darwin/amd64) Building Go toolchain1 using /usr/local/Cellar/go/1.14.2/libexec. Building Go bootstrap cmd/go (go_bootstrap) using Go toolchain1. Building Go toolchain2 using go_bootstrap and Go toolchain1. Building Go toolchain3 using go_bootstrap and Go toolchain2. Building packages and commands for darwin/amd64. --- Installed Go for darwin/amd64 in /Users/pclaerhout/sdk/gotip Installed commands in /Users/pclaerhout/sdk/gotip/bin Success. You may now run 'gotip'!
That's all. If you now want to run with the latest Go version, replace your regular go
command with gotip
.
To build with the latest released version:
$ go build main.go
To build with the development version:
$ gotip build main.go
If you want to update gotip
to the latest dev version, you execute gotip download
again…