github.com/go-asm/go@v1.21.1-0.20240213172139-40c5ead50c48/cmd/go/help/helpdoc.go (about) 1 // Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. 2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style 3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. 4 5 package help 6 7 import "github.com/go-asm/go/cmd/go/base" 8 9 var HelpC = &base.Command{ 10 UsageLine: "c", 11 Short: "calling between Go and C", 12 Long: ` 13 There are two different ways to call between Go and C/C++ code. 14 15 The first is the cgo tool, which is part of the Go distribution. For 16 information on how to use it see the cgo documentation (go doc cmd/cgo). 17 18 The second is the SWIG program, which is a general tool for 19 interfacing between languages. For information on SWIG see 20 http://swig.org/. When running go build, any file with a .swig 21 extension will be passed to SWIG. Any file with a .swigcxx extension 22 will be passed to SWIG with the -c++ option. 23 24 When either cgo or SWIG is used, go build will pass any .c, .m, .s, .S 25 or .sx files to the C compiler, and any .cc, .cpp, .cxx files to the C++ 26 compiler. The CC or CXX environment variables may be set to determine 27 the C or C++ compiler, respectively, to use. 28 `, 29 } 30 31 var HelpPackages = &base.Command{ 32 UsageLine: "packages", 33 Short: "package lists and patterns", 34 Long: ` 35 Many commands apply to a set of packages: 36 37 go <action> [packages] 38 39 Usually, [packages] is a list of import paths. 40 41 An import path that is a rooted path or that begins with 42 a . or .. element is interpreted as a file system path and 43 denotes the package in that directory. 44 45 Otherwise, the import path P denotes the package found in 46 the directory DIR/src/P for some DIR listed in the GOPATH 47 environment variable (For more details see: 'go help gopath'). 48 49 If no import paths are given, the action applies to the 50 package in the current directory. 51 52 There are four reserved names for paths that should not be used 53 for packages to be built with the go tool: 54 55 - "main" denotes the top-level package in a stand-alone executable. 56 57 - "all" expands to all packages found in all the GOPATH 58 trees. For example, 'go list all' lists all the packages on the local 59 system. When using modules, "all" expands to all packages in 60 the main module and their dependencies, including dependencies 61 needed by tests of any of those. 62 63 - "std" is like all but expands to just the packages in the standard 64 Go library. 65 66 - "cmd" expands to the Go repository's commands and their 67 internal libraries. 68 69 Import paths beginning with "cmd/" only match source code in 70 the Go repository. 71 72 An import path is a pattern if it includes one or more "..." wildcards, 73 each of which can match any string, including the empty string and 74 strings containing slashes. Such a pattern expands to all package 75 directories found in the GOPATH trees with names matching the 76 patterns. 77 78 To make common patterns more convenient, there are two special cases. 79 First, /... at the end of the pattern can match an empty string, 80 so that net/... matches both net and packages in its subdirectories, like net/http. 81 Second, any slash-separated pattern element containing a wildcard never 82 participates in a match of the "vendor" element in the path of a vendored 83 package, so that ./... does not match packages in subdirectories of 84 ./vendor or ./mycode/vendor, but ./vendor/... and ./mycode/vendor/... do. 85 Note, however, that a directory named vendor that itself contains code 86 is not a vendored package: cmd/vendor would be a command named vendor, 87 and the pattern cmd/... matches it. 88 See golang.org/s/go15vendor for more about vendoring. 89 90 An import path can also name a package to be downloaded from 91 a remote repository. Run 'go help importpath' for details. 92 93 Every package in a program must have a unique import path. 94 By convention, this is arranged by starting each path with a 95 unique prefix that belongs to you. For example, paths used 96 internally at Google all begin with 'google', and paths 97 denoting remote repositories begin with the path to the code, 98 such as 'github.com/user/repo'. 99 100 Packages in a program need not have unique package names, 101 but there are two reserved package names with special meaning. 102 The name main indicates a command, not a library. 103 Commands are built into binaries and cannot be imported. 104 The name documentation indicates documentation for 105 a non-Go program in the directory. Files in package documentation 106 are ignored by the go command. 107 108 As a special case, if the package list is a list of .go files from a 109 single directory, the command is applied to a single synthesized 110 package made up of exactly those files, ignoring any build constraints 111 in those files and ignoring any other files in the directory. 112 113 Directory and file names that begin with "." or "_" are ignored 114 by the go tool, as are directories named "testdata". 115 `, 116 } 117 118 var HelpImportPath = &base.Command{ 119 UsageLine: "importpath", 120 Short: "import path syntax", 121 Long: ` 122 123 An import path (see 'go help packages') denotes a package stored in the local 124 file system. In general, an import path denotes either a standard package (such 125 as "unicode/utf8") or a package found in one of the work spaces (For more 126 details see: 'go help gopath'). 127 128 Relative import paths 129 130 An import path beginning with ./ or ../ is called a relative path. 131 The toolchain supports relative import paths as a shortcut in two ways. 132 133 First, a relative path can be used as a shorthand on the command line. 134 If you are working in the directory containing the code imported as 135 "unicode" and want to run the tests for "unicode/utf8", you can type 136 "go test ./utf8" instead of needing to specify the full path. 137 Similarly, in the reverse situation, "go test .." will test "unicode" from 138 the "unicode/utf8" directory. Relative patterns are also allowed, like 139 "go test ./..." to test all subdirectories. See 'go help packages' for details 140 on the pattern syntax. 141 142 Second, if you are compiling a Go program not in a work space, 143 you can use a relative path in an import statement in that program 144 to refer to nearby code also not in a work space. 145 This makes it easy to experiment with small multipackage programs 146 outside of the usual work spaces, but such programs cannot be 147 installed with "go install" (there is no work space in which to install them), 148 so they are rebuilt from scratch each time they are built. 149 To avoid ambiguity, Go programs cannot use relative import paths 150 within a work space. 151 152 Remote import paths 153 154 Certain import paths also 155 describe how to obtain the source code for the package using 156 a revision control system. 157 158 A few common code hosting sites have special syntax: 159 160 Bitbucket (Git, Mercurial) 161 162 import "bitbucket.org/user/project" 163 import "bitbucket.org/user/project/sub/directory" 164 165 GitHub (Git) 166 167 import "github.com/user/project" 168 import "github.com/user/project/sub/directory" 169 170 Launchpad (Bazaar) 171 172 import "launchpad.net/project" 173 import "launchpad.net/project/series" 174 import "launchpad.net/project/series/sub/directory" 175 176 import "launchpad.net/~user/project/branch" 177 import "launchpad.net/~user/project/branch/sub/directory" 178 179 IBM DevOps Services (Git) 180 181 import "hub.jazz.net/git/user/project" 182 import "hub.jazz.net/git/user/project/sub/directory" 183 184 For code hosted on other servers, import paths may either be qualified 185 with the version control type, or the go tool can dynamically fetch 186 the import path over https/http and discover where the code resides 187 from a <meta> tag in the HTML. 188 189 To declare the code location, an import path of the form 190 191 repository.vcs/path 192 193 specifies the given repository, with or without the .vcs suffix, 194 using the named version control system, and then the path inside 195 that repository. The supported version control systems are: 196 197 Bazaar .bzr 198 Fossil .fossil 199 Git .git 200 Mercurial .hg 201 Subversion .svn 202 203 For example, 204 205 import "example.org/user/foo.hg" 206 207 denotes the root directory of the Mercurial repository at 208 example.org/user/foo or foo.hg, and 209 210 import "example.org/repo.git/foo/bar" 211 212 denotes the foo/bar directory of the Git repository at 213 example.org/repo or repo.git. 214 215 When a version control system supports multiple protocols, 216 each is tried in turn when downloading. For example, a Git 217 download tries https://, then git+ssh://. 218 219 By default, downloads are restricted to known secure protocols 220 (e.g. https, ssh). To override this setting for Git downloads, the 221 GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL environment variable can be set (For more details see: 222 'go help environment'). 223 224 If the import path is not a known code hosting site and also lacks a 225 version control qualifier, the go tool attempts to fetch the import 226 over https/http and looks for a <meta> tag in the document's HTML 227 <head>. 228 229 The meta tag has the form: 230 231 <meta name="go-import" content="import-prefix vcs repo-root"> 232 233 The import-prefix is the import path corresponding to the repository 234 root. It must be a prefix or an exact match of the package being 235 fetched with "go get". If it's not an exact match, another http 236 request is made at the prefix to verify the <meta> tags match. 237 238 The meta tag should appear as early in the file as possible. 239 In particular, it should appear before any raw JavaScript or CSS, 240 to avoid confusing the go command's restricted parser. 241 242 The vcs is one of "bzr", "fossil", "git", "hg", "svn". 243 244 The repo-root is the root of the version control system 245 containing a scheme and not containing a .vcs qualifier. 246 247 For example, 248 249 import "example.org/pkg/foo" 250 251 will result in the following requests: 252 253 https://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1 (preferred) 254 http://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1 (fallback, only with use of correctly set GOINSECURE) 255 256 If that page contains the meta tag 257 258 <meta name="go-import" content="example.org git https://code.org/r/p/exproj"> 259 260 the go tool will verify that https://example.org/?go-get=1 contains the 261 same meta tag and then git clone https://code.org/r/p/exproj into 262 GOPATH/src/example.org. 263 264 When using GOPATH, downloaded packages are written to the first directory 265 listed in the GOPATH environment variable. 266 (See 'go help gopath-get' and 'go help gopath'.) 267 268 When using modules, downloaded packages are stored in the module cache. 269 See https://golang.org/ref/mod#module-cache. 270 271 When using modules, an additional variant of the go-import meta tag is 272 recognized and is preferred over those listing version control systems. 273 That variant uses "mod" as the vcs in the content value, as in: 274 275 <meta name="go-import" content="example.org mod https://code.org/moduleproxy"> 276 277 This tag means to fetch modules with paths beginning with example.org 278 from the module proxy available at the URL https://code.org/moduleproxy. 279 See https://golang.org/ref/mod#goproxy-protocol for details about the 280 proxy protocol. 281 282 Import path checking 283 284 When the custom import path feature described above redirects to a 285 known code hosting site, each of the resulting packages has two possible 286 import paths, using the custom domain or the known hosting site. 287 288 A package statement is said to have an "import comment" if it is immediately 289 followed (before the next newline) by a comment of one of these two forms: 290 291 package math // import "path" 292 package math /* import "path" */ 293 294 The go command will refuse to install a package with an import comment 295 unless it is being referred to by that import path. In this way, import comments 296 let package authors make sure the custom import path is used and not a 297 direct path to the underlying code hosting site. 298 299 Import path checking is disabled for code found within vendor trees. 300 This makes it possible to copy code into alternate locations in vendor trees 301 without needing to update import comments. 302 303 Import path checking is also disabled when using modules. 304 Import path comments are obsoleted by the go.mod file's module statement. 305 306 See https://golang.org/s/go14customimport for details. 307 `, 308 } 309 310 var HelpGopath = &base.Command{ 311 UsageLine: "gopath", 312 Short: "GOPATH environment variable", 313 Long: ` 314 The Go path is used to resolve import statements. 315 It is implemented by and documented in the go/build package. 316 317 The GOPATH environment variable lists places to look for Go code. 318 On Unix, the value is a colon-separated string. 319 On Windows, the value is a semicolon-separated string. 320 On Plan 9, the value is a list. 321 322 If the environment variable is unset, GOPATH defaults 323 to a subdirectory named "go" in the user's home directory 324 ($HOME/go on Unix, %USERPROFILE%\go on Windows), 325 unless that directory holds a Go distribution. 326 Run "go env GOPATH" to see the current GOPATH. 327 328 See https://golang.org/wiki/SettingGOPATH to set a custom GOPATH. 329 330 Each directory listed in GOPATH must have a prescribed structure: 331 332 The src directory holds source code. The path below src 333 determines the import path or executable name. 334 335 The pkg directory holds installed package objects. 336 As in the Go tree, each target operating system and 337 architecture pair has its own subdirectory of pkg 338 (pkg/GOOS_GOARCH). 339 340 If DIR is a directory listed in the GOPATH, a package with 341 source in DIR/src/foo/bar can be imported as "foo/bar" and 342 has its compiled form installed to "DIR/pkg/GOOS_GOARCH/foo/bar.a". 343 344 The bin directory holds compiled commands. 345 Each command is named for its source directory, but only 346 the final element, not the entire path. That is, the 347 command with source in DIR/src/foo/quux is installed into 348 DIR/bin/quux, not DIR/bin/foo/quux. The "foo/" prefix is stripped 349 so that you can add DIR/bin to your PATH to get at the 350 installed commands. If the GOBIN environment variable is 351 set, commands are installed to the directory it names instead 352 of DIR/bin. GOBIN must be an absolute path. 353 354 Here's an example directory layout: 355 356 GOPATH=/home/user/go 357 358 /home/user/go/ 359 src/ 360 foo/ 361 bar/ (go code in package bar) 362 x.go 363 quux/ (go code in package main) 364 y.go 365 bin/ 366 quux (installed command) 367 pkg/ 368 linux_amd64/ 369 foo/ 370 bar.a (installed package object) 371 372 Go searches each directory listed in GOPATH to find source code, 373 but new packages are always downloaded into the first directory 374 in the list. 375 376 See https://golang.org/doc/code.html for an example. 377 378 GOPATH and Modules 379 380 When using modules, GOPATH is no longer used for resolving imports. 381 However, it is still used to store downloaded source code (in GOPATH/pkg/mod) 382 and compiled commands (in GOPATH/bin). 383 384 Internal Directories 385 386 Code in or below a directory named "internal" is importable only 387 by code in the directory tree rooted at the parent of "internal". 388 Here's an extended version of the directory layout above: 389 390 /home/user/go/ 391 src/ 392 crash/ 393 bang/ (go code in package bang) 394 b.go 395 foo/ (go code in package foo) 396 f.go 397 bar/ (go code in package bar) 398 x.go 399 github.com/go-asm/go/ 400 baz/ (go code in package baz) 401 z.go 402 quux/ (go code in package main) 403 y.go 404 405 406 The code in z.go is imported as "foo/github.com/go-asm/go/baz", but that 407 import statement can only appear in source files in the subtree 408 rooted at foo. The source files foo/f.go, foo/bar/x.go, and 409 foo/quux/y.go can all import "foo/github.com/go-asm/go/baz", but the source file 410 crash/bang/b.go cannot. 411 412 See https://golang.org/s/go14internal for details. 413 414 Vendor Directories 415 416 Go 1.6 includes support for using local copies of external dependencies 417 to satisfy imports of those dependencies, often referred to as vendoring. 418 419 Code below a directory named "vendor" is importable only 420 by code in the directory tree rooted at the parent of "vendor", 421 and only using an import path that omits the prefix up to and 422 including the vendor element. 423 424 Here's the example from the previous section, 425 but with the "internal" directory renamed to "vendor" 426 and a new foo/vendor/crash/bang directory added: 427 428 /home/user/go/ 429 src/ 430 crash/ 431 bang/ (go code in package bang) 432 b.go 433 foo/ (go code in package foo) 434 f.go 435 bar/ (go code in package bar) 436 x.go 437 vendor/ 438 crash/ 439 bang/ (go code in package bang) 440 b.go 441 baz/ (go code in package baz) 442 z.go 443 quux/ (go code in package main) 444 y.go 445 446 The same visibility rules apply as for internal, but the code 447 in z.go is imported as "baz", not as "foo/vendor/baz". 448 449 Code in vendor directories deeper in the source tree shadows 450 code in higher directories. Within the subtree rooted at foo, an import 451 of "crash/bang" resolves to "foo/vendor/crash/bang", not the 452 top-level "crash/bang". 453 454 Code in vendor directories is not subject to import path 455 checking (see 'go help importpath'). 456 457 When 'go get' checks out or updates a git repository, it now also 458 updates submodules. 459 460 Vendor directories do not affect the placement of new repositories 461 being checked out for the first time by 'go get': those are always 462 placed in the main GOPATH, never in a vendor subtree. 463 464 See https://golang.org/s/go15vendor for details. 465 `, 466 } 467 468 var HelpEnvironment = &base.Command{ 469 UsageLine: "environment", 470 Short: "environment variables", 471 Long: ` 472 473 The go command and the tools it invokes consult environment variables 474 for configuration. If an environment variable is unset or empty, the go 475 command uses a sensible default setting. To see the effective setting of 476 the variable <NAME>, run 'go env <NAME>'. To change the default setting, 477 run 'go env -w <NAME>=<VALUE>'. Defaults changed using 'go env -w' 478 are recorded in a Go environment configuration file stored in the 479 per-user configuration directory, as reported by os.UserConfigDir. 480 The location of the configuration file can be changed by setting 481 the environment variable GOENV, and 'go env GOENV' prints the 482 effective location, but 'go env -w' cannot change the default location. 483 See 'go help env' for details. 484 485 General-purpose environment variables: 486 487 GO111MODULE 488 Controls whether the go command runs in module-aware mode or GOPATH mode. 489 May be "off", "on", or "auto". 490 See https://golang.org/ref/mod#mod-commands. 491 GCCGO 492 The gccgo command to run for 'go build -compiler=gccgo'. 493 GOARCH 494 The architecture, or processor, for which to compile code. 495 Examples are amd64, 386, arm, ppc64. 496 GOBIN 497 The directory where 'go install' will install a command. 498 GOCACHE 499 The directory where the go command will store cached 500 information for reuse in future builds. 501 GOMODCACHE 502 The directory where the go command will store downloaded modules. 503 GODEBUG 504 Enable various debugging facilities. See https://go.dev/doc/godebug 505 for details. 506 GOENV 507 The location of the Go environment configuration file. 508 Cannot be set using 'go env -w'. 509 Setting GOENV=off in the environment disables the use of the 510 default configuration file. 511 GOFLAGS 512 A space-separated list of -flag=value settings to apply 513 to go commands by default, when the given flag is known by 514 the current command. Each entry must be a standalone flag. 515 Because the entries are space-separated, flag values must 516 not contain spaces. Flags listed on the command line 517 are applied after this list and therefore override it. 518 GOINSECURE 519 Comma-separated list of glob patterns (in the syntax of Go's path.Match) 520 of module path prefixes that should always be fetched in an insecure 521 manner. Only applies to dependencies that are being fetched directly. 522 GOINSECURE does not disable checksum database validation. GOPRIVATE or 523 GONOSUMDB may be used to achieve that. 524 GOOS 525 The operating system for which to compile code. 526 Examples are linux, darwin, windows, netbsd. 527 GOPATH 528 Controls where various files are stored. See: 'go help gopath'. 529 GOPROXY 530 URL of Go module proxy. See https://golang.org/ref/mod#environment-variables 531 and https://golang.org/ref/mod#module-proxy for details. 532 GOPRIVATE, GONOPROXY, GONOSUMDB 533 Comma-separated list of glob patterns (in the syntax of Go's path.Match) 534 of module path prefixes that should always be fetched directly 535 or that should not be compared against the checksum database. 536 See https://golang.org/ref/mod#private-modules. 537 GOROOT 538 The root of the go tree. 539 GOSUMDB 540 The name of checksum database to use and optionally its public key and 541 URL. See https://golang.org/ref/mod#authenticating. 542 GOTOOLCHAIN 543 Controls which Go toolchain is used. See https://go.dev/doc/toolchain. 544 GOTMPDIR 545 The directory where the go command will write 546 temporary source files, packages, and binaries. 547 GOVCS 548 Lists version control commands that may be used with matching servers. 549 See 'go help vcs'. 550 GOWORK 551 In module aware mode, use the given go.work file as a workspace file. 552 By default or when GOWORK is "auto", the go command searches for a 553 file named go.work in the current directory and then containing directories 554 until one is found. If a valid go.work file is found, the modules 555 specified will collectively be used as the main modules. If GOWORK 556 is "off", or a go.work file is not found in "auto" mode, workspace 557 mode is disabled. 558 559 Environment variables for use with cgo: 560 561 AR 562 The command to use to manipulate library archives when 563 building with the gccgo compiler. 564 The default is 'ar'. 565 CC 566 The command to use to compile C code. 567 CGO_ENABLED 568 Whether the cgo command is supported. Either 0 or 1. 569 CGO_CFLAGS 570 Flags that cgo will pass to the compiler when compiling 571 C code. 572 CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW 573 A regular expression specifying additional flags to allow 574 to appear in #cgo CFLAGS source code directives. 575 Does not apply to the CGO_CFLAGS environment variable. 576 CGO_CFLAGS_DISALLOW 577 A regular expression specifying flags that must be disallowed 578 from appearing in #cgo CFLAGS source code directives. 579 Does not apply to the CGO_CFLAGS environment variable. 580 CGO_CPPFLAGS, CGO_CPPFLAGS_ALLOW, CGO_CPPFLAGS_DISALLOW 581 Like CGO_CFLAGS, CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW, and CGO_CFLAGS_DISALLOW, 582 but for the C preprocessor. 583 CGO_CXXFLAGS, CGO_CXXFLAGS_ALLOW, CGO_CXXFLAGS_DISALLOW 584 Like CGO_CFLAGS, CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW, and CGO_CFLAGS_DISALLOW, 585 but for the C++ compiler. 586 CGO_FFLAGS, CGO_FFLAGS_ALLOW, CGO_FFLAGS_DISALLOW 587 Like CGO_CFLAGS, CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW, and CGO_CFLAGS_DISALLOW, 588 but for the Fortran compiler. 589 CGO_LDFLAGS, CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW, CGO_LDFLAGS_DISALLOW 590 Like CGO_CFLAGS, CGO_CFLAGS_ALLOW, and CGO_CFLAGS_DISALLOW, 591 but for the linker. 592 CXX 593 The command to use to compile C++ code. 594 FC 595 The command to use to compile Fortran code. 596 PKG_CONFIG 597 Path to pkg-config tool. 598 599 Architecture-specific environment variables: 600 601 GOARM 602 For GOARCH=arm, the ARM architecture for which to compile. 603 Valid values are 5, 6, 7. 604 The value can be followed by an option specifying how to implement floating point instructions. 605 Valid options are ,softfloat (default for 5) and ,hardfloat (default for 6 and 7). 606 GO386 607 For GOARCH=386, how to implement floating point instructions. 608 Valid values are sse2 (default), softfloat. 609 GOAMD64 610 For GOARCH=amd64, the microarchitecture level for which to compile. 611 Valid values are v1 (default), v2, v3, v4. 612 See https://golang.org/wiki/MinimumRequirements#amd64 613 GOMIPS 614 For GOARCH=mips{,le}, whether to use floating point instructions. 615 Valid values are hardfloat (default), softfloat. 616 GOMIPS64 617 For GOARCH=mips64{,le}, whether to use floating point instructions. 618 Valid values are hardfloat (default), softfloat. 619 GOPPC64 620 For GOARCH=ppc64{,le}, the target ISA (Instruction Set Architecture). 621 Valid values are power8 (default), power9, power10. 622 GOWASM 623 For GOARCH=wasm, comma-separated list of experimental WebAssembly features to use. 624 Valid values are satconv, signext. 625 626 Environment variables for use with code coverage: 627 628 GOCOVERDIR 629 Directory into which to write code coverage data files 630 generated by running a "go build -cover" binary. 631 Requires that GOEXPERIMENT=coverageredesign is enabled. 632 633 Special-purpose environment variables: 634 635 GCCGOTOOLDIR 636 If set, where to find gccgo tools, such as cgo. 637 The default is based on how gccgo was configured. 638 GOEXPERIMENT 639 Comma-separated list of toolchain experiments to enable or disable. 640 The list of available experiments may change arbitrarily over time. 641 See src/github.com/go-asm/go/goexperiment/flags.go for currently valid values. 642 Warning: This variable is provided for the development and testing 643 of the Go toolchain itself. Use beyond that purpose is unsupported. 644 GOROOT_FINAL 645 The root of the installed Go tree, when it is 646 installed in a location other than where it is built. 647 File names in stack traces are rewritten from GOROOT to 648 GOROOT_FINAL. 649 GO_EXTLINK_ENABLED 650 Whether the linker should use external linking mode 651 when using -linkmode=auto with code that uses cgo. 652 Set to 0 to disable external linking mode, 1 to enable it. 653 GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL 654 Defined by Git. A colon-separated list of schemes that are allowed 655 to be used with git fetch/clone. If set, any scheme not explicitly 656 mentioned will be considered insecure by 'go get'. 657 Because the variable is defined by Git, the default value cannot 658 be set using 'go env -w'. 659 660 Additional information available from 'go env' but not read from the environment: 661 662 GOEXE 663 The executable file name suffix (".exe" on Windows, "" on other systems). 664 GOGCCFLAGS 665 A space-separated list of arguments supplied to the CC command. 666 GOHOSTARCH 667 The architecture (GOARCH) of the Go toolchain binaries. 668 GOHOSTOS 669 The operating system (GOOS) of the Go toolchain binaries. 670 GOMOD 671 The absolute path to the go.mod of the main module. 672 If module-aware mode is enabled, but there is no go.mod, GOMOD will be 673 os.DevNull ("/dev/null" on Unix-like systems, "NUL" on Windows). 674 If module-aware mode is disabled, GOMOD will be the empty string. 675 GOTOOLDIR 676 The directory where the go tools (compile, cover, doc, etc...) are installed. 677 GOVERSION 678 The version of the installed Go tree, as reported by runtime.Version. 679 `, 680 } 681 682 var HelpFileType = &base.Command{ 683 UsageLine: "filetype", 684 Short: "file types", 685 Long: ` 686 The go command examines the contents of a restricted set of files 687 in each directory. It identifies which files to examine based on 688 the extension of the file name. These extensions are: 689 690 .go 691 Go source files. 692 .c, .h 693 C source files. 694 If the package uses cgo or SWIG, these will be compiled with the 695 OS-native compiler (typically gcc); otherwise they will 696 trigger an error. 697 .cc, .cpp, .cxx, .hh, .hpp, .hxx 698 C++ source files. Only useful with cgo or SWIG, and always 699 compiled with the OS-native compiler. 700 .m 701 Objective-C source files. Only useful with cgo, and always 702 compiled with the OS-native compiler. 703 .s, .S, .sx 704 Assembler source files. 705 If the package uses cgo or SWIG, these will be assembled with the 706 OS-native assembler (typically gcc (sic)); otherwise they 707 will be assembled with the Go assembler. 708 .swig, .swigcxx 709 SWIG definition files. 710 .syso 711 System object files. 712 713 Files of each of these types except .syso may contain build 714 constraints, but the go command stops scanning for build constraints 715 at the first item in the file that is not a blank line or //-style 716 line comment. See the go/build package documentation for 717 more details. 718 `, 719 } 720 721 var HelpBuildmode = &base.Command{ 722 UsageLine: "buildmode", 723 Short: "build modes", 724 Long: ` 725 The 'go build' and 'go install' commands take a -buildmode argument which 726 indicates which kind of object file is to be built. Currently supported values 727 are: 728 729 -buildmode=archive 730 Build the listed non-main packages into .a files. Packages named 731 main are ignored. 732 733 -buildmode=c-archive 734 Build the listed main package, plus all packages it imports, 735 into a C archive file. The only callable symbols will be those 736 functions exported using a cgo //export comment. Requires 737 exactly one main package to be listed. 738 739 -buildmode=c-shared 740 Build the listed main package, plus all packages it imports, 741 into a C shared library. The only callable symbols will 742 be those functions exported using a cgo //export comment. 743 Requires exactly one main package to be listed. 744 745 -buildmode=default 746 Listed main packages are built into executables and listed 747 non-main packages are built into .a files (the default 748 behavior). 749 750 -buildmode=shared 751 Combine all the listed non-main packages into a single shared 752 library that will be used when building with the -linkshared 753 option. Packages named main are ignored. 754 755 -buildmode=exe 756 Build the listed main packages and everything they import into 757 executables. Packages not named main are ignored. 758 759 -buildmode=pie 760 Build the listed main packages and everything they import into 761 position independent executables (PIE). Packages not named 762 main are ignored. 763 764 -buildmode=plugin 765 Build the listed main packages, plus all packages that they 766 import, into a Go plugin. Packages not named main are ignored. 767 768 On AIX, when linking a C program that uses a Go archive built with 769 -buildmode=c-archive, you must pass -Wl,-bnoobjreorder to the C compiler. 770 `, 771 } 772 773 var HelpCache = &base.Command{ 774 UsageLine: "cache", 775 Short: "build and test caching", 776 Long: ` 777 The go command caches build outputs for reuse in future builds. 778 The default location for cache data is a subdirectory named go-build 779 in the standard user cache directory for the current operating system. 780 Setting the GOCACHE environment variable overrides this default, 781 and running 'go env GOCACHE' prints the current cache directory. 782 783 The go command periodically deletes cached data that has not been 784 used recently. Running 'go clean -cache' deletes all cached data. 785 786 The build cache correctly accounts for changes to Go source files, 787 compilers, compiler options, and so on: cleaning the cache explicitly 788 should not be necessary in typical use. However, the build cache 789 does not detect changes to C libraries imported with cgo. 790 If you have made changes to the C libraries on your system, you 791 will need to clean the cache explicitly or else use the -a build flag 792 (see 'go help build') to force rebuilding of packages that 793 depend on the updated C libraries. 794 795 The go command also caches successful package test results. 796 See 'go help test' for details. Running 'go clean -testcache' removes 797 all cached test results (but not cached build results). 798 799 The go command also caches values used in fuzzing with 'go test -fuzz', 800 specifically, values that expanded code coverage when passed to a 801 fuzz function. These values are not used for regular building and 802 testing, but they're stored in a subdirectory of the build cache. 803 Running 'go clean -fuzzcache' removes all cached fuzzing values. 804 This may make fuzzing less effective, temporarily. 805 806 The GODEBUG environment variable can enable printing of debugging 807 information about the state of the cache: 808 809 GODEBUG=gocacheverify=1 causes the go command to bypass the 810 use of any cache entries and instead rebuild everything and check 811 that the results match existing cache entries. 812 813 GODEBUG=gocachehash=1 causes the go command to print the inputs 814 for all of the content hashes it uses to construct cache lookup keys. 815 The output is voluminous but can be useful for debugging the cache. 816 817 GODEBUG=gocachetest=1 causes the go command to print details of its 818 decisions about whether to reuse a cached test result. 819 `, 820 } 821 822 var HelpBuildConstraint = &base.Command{ 823 UsageLine: "buildconstraint", 824 Short: "build constraints", 825 Long: ` 826 A build constraint, also known as a build tag, is a condition under which a 827 file should be included in the package. Build constraints are given by a 828 line comment that begins 829 830 //go:build 831 832 Constraints may appear in any kind of source file (not just Go), but 833 they must appear near the top of the file, preceded 834 only by blank lines and other comments. These rules mean that in Go 835 files a build constraint must appear before the package clause. 836 837 To distinguish build constraints from package documentation, 838 a build constraint should be followed by a blank line. 839 840 A build constraint comment is evaluated as an expression containing 841 build tags combined by ||, &&, and ! operators and parentheses. 842 Operators have the same meaning as in Go. 843 844 For example, the following build constraint constrains a file to 845 build when the "linux" and "386" constraints are satisfied, or when 846 "darwin" is satisfied and "cgo" is not: 847 848 //go:build (linux && 386) || (darwin && !cgo) 849 850 It is an error for a file to have more than one //go:build line. 851 852 During a particular build, the following build tags are satisfied: 853 854 - the target operating system, as spelled by runtime.GOOS, set with the 855 GOOS environment variable. 856 - the target architecture, as spelled by runtime.GOARCH, set with the 857 GOARCH environment variable. 858 - any architecture features, in the form GOARCH.feature 859 (for example, "amd64.v2"), as detailed below. 860 - "unix", if GOOS is a Unix or Unix-like system. 861 - the compiler being used, either "gc" or "gccgo" 862 - "cgo", if the cgo command is supported (see CGO_ENABLED in 863 'go help environment'). 864 - a term for each Go major release, through the current version: 865 "go1.1" from Go version 1.1 onward, "go1.12" from Go 1.12, and so on. 866 - any additional tags given by the -tags flag (see 'go help build'). 867 868 There are no separate build tags for beta or minor releases. 869 870 If a file's name, after stripping the extension and a possible _test suffix, 871 matches any of the following patterns: 872 *_GOOS 873 *_GOARCH 874 *_GOOS_GOARCH 875 (example: source_windows_amd64.go) where GOOS and GOARCH represent 876 any known operating system and architecture values respectively, then 877 the file is considered to have an implicit build constraint requiring 878 those terms (in addition to any explicit constraints in the file). 879 880 Using GOOS=android matches build tags and files as for GOOS=linux 881 in addition to android tags and files. 882 883 Using GOOS=illumos matches build tags and files as for GOOS=solaris 884 in addition to illumos tags and files. 885 886 Using GOOS=ios matches build tags and files as for GOOS=darwin 887 in addition to ios tags and files. 888 889 The defined architecture feature build tags are: 890 891 - For GOARCH=386, GO386=387 and GO386=sse2 892 set the 386.387 and 386.sse2 build tags, respectively. 893 - For GOARCH=amd64, GOAMD64=v1, v2, and v3 894 correspond to the amd64.v1, amd64.v2, and amd64.v3 feature build tags. 895 - For GOARCH=arm, GOARM=5, 6, and 7 896 correspond to the arm.5, arm.6, and arm.7 feature build tags. 897 - For GOARCH=mips or mipsle, 898 GOMIPS=hardfloat and softfloat 899 correspond to the mips.hardfloat and mips.softfloat 900 (or mipsle.hardfloat and mipsle.softfloat) feature build tags. 901 - For GOARCH=mips64 or mips64le, 902 GOMIPS64=hardfloat and softfloat 903 correspond to the mips64.hardfloat and mips64.softfloat 904 (or mips64le.hardfloat and mips64le.softfloat) feature build tags. 905 - For GOARCH=ppc64 or ppc64le, 906 GOPPC64=power8, power9, and power10 correspond to the 907 ppc64.power8, ppc64.power9, and ppc64.power10 908 (or ppc64le.power8, ppc64le.power9, and ppc64le.power10) 909 feature build tags. 910 - For GOARCH=wasm, GOWASM=satconv and signext 911 correspond to the wasm.satconv and wasm.signext feature build tags. 912 913 For GOARCH=amd64, arm, ppc64, and ppc64le, a particular feature level 914 sets the feature build tags for all previous levels as well. 915 For example, GOAMD64=v2 sets the amd64.v1 and amd64.v2 feature flags. 916 This ensures that code making use of v2 features continues to compile 917 when, say, GOAMD64=v4 is introduced. 918 Code handling the absence of a particular feature level 919 should use a negation: 920 921 //go:build !amd64.v2 922 923 To keep a file from being considered for any build: 924 925 //go:build ignore 926 927 (Any other unsatisfied word will work as well, but "ignore" is conventional.) 928 929 To build a file only when using cgo, and only on Linux and OS X: 930 931 //go:build cgo && (linux || darwin) 932 933 Such a file is usually paired with another file implementing the 934 default functionality for other systems, which in this case would 935 carry the constraint: 936 937 //go:build !(cgo && (linux || darwin)) 938 939 Naming a file dns_windows.go will cause it to be included only when 940 building the package for Windows; similarly, math_386.s will be included 941 only when building the package for 32-bit x86. 942 943 Go versions 1.16 and earlier used a different syntax for build constraints, 944 with a "// +build" prefix. The gofmt command will add an equivalent //go:build 945 constraint when encountering the older syntax. 946 `, 947 }