github.com/gocuntian/go@v0.0.0-20160610041250-fee02d270bf8/src/cmd/go/help.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 main
     6  
     7  var helpC = &Command{
     8  	UsageLine: "c",
     9  	Short:     "calling between Go and C",
    10  	Long: `
    11  There are two different ways to call between Go and C/C++ code.
    12  
    13  The first is the cgo tool, which is part of the Go distribution.  For
    14  information on how to use it see the cgo documentation (go doc cmd/cgo).
    15  
    16  The second is the SWIG program, which is a general tool for
    17  interfacing between languages.  For information on SWIG see
    18  http://swig.org/.  When running go build, any file with a .swig
    19  extension will be passed to SWIG.  Any file with a .swigcxx extension
    20  will be passed to SWIG with the -c++ option.
    21  
    22  When either cgo or SWIG is used, go build will pass any .c, .m, .s,
    23  or .S files to the C compiler, and any .cc, .cpp, .cxx files to the C++
    24  compiler.  The CC or CXX environment variables may be set to determine
    25  the C or C++ compiler, respectively, to use.
    26  	`,
    27  }
    28  
    29  var helpPackages = &Command{
    30  	UsageLine: "packages",
    31  	Short:     "description of package lists",
    32  	Long: `
    33  Many commands apply to a set of packages:
    34  
    35  	go action [packages]
    36  
    37  Usually, [packages] is a list of import paths.
    38  
    39  An import path that is a rooted path or that begins with
    40  a . or .. element is interpreted as a file system path and
    41  denotes the package in that directory.
    42  
    43  Otherwise, the import path P denotes the package found in
    44  the directory DIR/src/P for some DIR listed in the GOPATH
    45  environment variable (see 'go help gopath').
    46  
    47  If no import paths are given, the action applies to the
    48  package in the current directory.
    49  
    50  There are four reserved names for paths that should not be used
    51  for packages to be built with the go tool:
    52  
    53  - "main" denotes the top-level package in a stand-alone executable.
    54  
    55  - "all" expands to all package directories found in all the GOPATH
    56  trees. For example, 'go list all' lists all the packages on the local
    57  system.
    58  
    59  - "std" is like all but expands to just the packages in the standard
    60  Go library.
    61  
    62  - "cmd" expands to the Go repository's commands and their
    63  internal libraries.
    64  
    65  An import path is a pattern if it includes one or more "..." wildcards,
    66  each of which can match any string, including the empty string and
    67  strings containing slashes.  Such a pattern expands to all package
    68  directories found in the GOPATH trees with names matching the
    69  patterns.  As a special case, x/... matches x as well as x's subdirectories.
    70  For example, net/... expands to net and packages in its subdirectories.
    71  
    72  An import path can also name a package to be downloaded from
    73  a remote repository.  Run 'go help importpath' for details.
    74  
    75  Every package in a program must have a unique import path.
    76  By convention, this is arranged by starting each path with a
    77  unique prefix that belongs to you.  For example, paths used
    78  internally at Google all begin with 'google', and paths
    79  denoting remote repositories begin with the path to the code,
    80  such as 'github.com/user/repo'.
    81  
    82  Packages in a program need not have unique package names,
    83  but there are two reserved package names with special meaning.
    84  The name main indicates a command, not a library.
    85  Commands are built into binaries and cannot be imported.
    86  The name documentation indicates documentation for
    87  a non-Go program in the directory. Files in package documentation
    88  are ignored by the go command.
    89  
    90  As a special case, if the package list is a list of .go files from a
    91  single directory, the command is applied to a single synthesized
    92  package made up of exactly those files, ignoring any build constraints
    93  in those files and ignoring any other files in the directory.
    94  
    95  Directory and file names that begin with "." or "_" are ignored
    96  by the go tool, as are directories named "testdata".
    97  	`,
    98  }
    99  
   100  var helpImportPath = &Command{
   101  	UsageLine: "importpath",
   102  	Short:     "import path syntax",
   103  	Long: `
   104  
   105  An import path (see 'go help packages') denotes a package
   106  stored in the local file system.  In general, an import path denotes
   107  either a standard package (such as "unicode/utf8") or a package
   108  found in one of the work spaces (see 'go help gopath').
   109  
   110  Relative import paths
   111  
   112  An import path beginning with ./ or ../ is called a relative path.
   113  The toolchain supports relative import paths as a shortcut in two ways.
   114  
   115  First, a relative path can be used as a shorthand on the command line.
   116  If you are working in the directory containing the code imported as
   117  "unicode" and want to run the tests for "unicode/utf8", you can type
   118  "go test ./utf8" instead of needing to specify the full path.
   119  Similarly, in the reverse situation, "go test .." will test "unicode" from
   120  the "unicode/utf8" directory. Relative patterns are also allowed, like
   121  "go test ./..." to test all subdirectories. See 'go help packages' for details
   122  on the pattern syntax.
   123  
   124  Second, if you are compiling a Go program not in a work space,
   125  you can use a relative path in an import statement in that program
   126  to refer to nearby code also not in a work space.
   127  This makes it easy to experiment with small multipackage programs
   128  outside of the usual work spaces, but such programs cannot be
   129  installed with "go install" (there is no work space in which to install them),
   130  so they are rebuilt from scratch each time they are built.
   131  To avoid ambiguity, Go programs cannot use relative import paths
   132  within a work space.
   133  
   134  Remote import paths
   135  
   136  Certain import paths also
   137  describe how to obtain the source code for the package using
   138  a revision control system.
   139  
   140  A few common code hosting sites have special syntax:
   141  
   142  	Bitbucket (Git, Mercurial)
   143  
   144  		import "bitbucket.org/user/project"
   145  		import "bitbucket.org/user/project/sub/directory"
   146  
   147  	GitHub (Git)
   148  
   149  		import "github.com/user/project"
   150  		import "github.com/user/project/sub/directory"
   151  
   152  	Launchpad (Bazaar)
   153  
   154  		import "launchpad.net/project"
   155  		import "launchpad.net/project/series"
   156  		import "launchpad.net/project/series/sub/directory"
   157  
   158  		import "launchpad.net/~user/project/branch"
   159  		import "launchpad.net/~user/project/branch/sub/directory"
   160  
   161  	IBM DevOps Services (Git)
   162  
   163  		import "hub.jazz.net/git/user/project"
   164  		import "hub.jazz.net/git/user/project/sub/directory"
   165  
   166  For code hosted on other servers, import paths may either be qualified
   167  with the version control type, or the go tool can dynamically fetch
   168  the import path over https/http and discover where the code resides
   169  from a <meta> tag in the HTML.
   170  
   171  To declare the code location, an import path of the form
   172  
   173  	repository.vcs/path
   174  
   175  specifies the given repository, with or without the .vcs suffix,
   176  using the named version control system, and then the path inside
   177  that repository.  The supported version control systems are:
   178  
   179  	Bazaar      .bzr
   180  	Git         .git
   181  	Mercurial   .hg
   182  	Subversion  .svn
   183  
   184  For example,
   185  
   186  	import "example.org/user/foo.hg"
   187  
   188  denotes the root directory of the Mercurial repository at
   189  example.org/user/foo or foo.hg, and
   190  
   191  	import "example.org/repo.git/foo/bar"
   192  
   193  denotes the foo/bar directory of the Git repository at
   194  example.org/repo or repo.git.
   195  
   196  When a version control system supports multiple protocols,
   197  each is tried in turn when downloading.  For example, a Git
   198  download tries https://, then git+ssh://.
   199  
   200  If the import path is not a known code hosting site and also lacks a
   201  version control qualifier, the go tool attempts to fetch the import
   202  over https/http and looks for a <meta> tag in the document's HTML
   203  <head>.
   204  
   205  The meta tag has the form:
   206  
   207  	<meta name="go-import" content="import-prefix vcs repo-root">
   208  
   209  The import-prefix is the import path corresponding to the repository
   210  root. It must be a prefix or an exact match of the package being
   211  fetched with "go get". If it's not an exact match, another http
   212  request is made at the prefix to verify the <meta> tags match.
   213  
   214  The meta tag should appear as early in the file as possible.
   215  In particular, it should appear before any raw JavaScript or CSS,
   216  to avoid confusing the go command's restricted parser.
   217  
   218  The vcs is one of "git", "hg", "svn", etc,
   219  
   220  The repo-root is the root of the version control system
   221  containing a scheme and not containing a .vcs qualifier.
   222  
   223  For example,
   224  
   225  	import "example.org/pkg/foo"
   226  
   227  will result in the following requests:
   228  
   229  	https://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1 (preferred)
   230  	http://example.org/pkg/foo?go-get=1  (fallback, only with -insecure)
   231  
   232  If that page contains the meta tag
   233  
   234  	<meta name="go-import" content="example.org git https://code.org/r/p/exproj">
   235  
   236  the go tool will verify that https://example.org/?go-get=1 contains the
   237  same meta tag and then git clone https://code.org/r/p/exproj into
   238  GOPATH/src/example.org.
   239  
   240  New downloaded packages are written to the first directory
   241  listed in the GOPATH environment variable (see 'go help gopath').
   242  
   243  The go command attempts to download the version of the
   244  package appropriate for the Go release being used.
   245  Run 'go help get' for more.
   246  
   247  Import path checking
   248  
   249  When the custom import path feature described above redirects to a
   250  known code hosting site, each of the resulting packages has two possible
   251  import paths, using the custom domain or the known hosting site.
   252  
   253  A package statement is said to have an "import comment" if it is immediately
   254  followed (before the next newline) by a comment of one of these two forms:
   255  
   256  	package math // import "path"
   257  	package math /* import "path" */
   258  
   259  The go command will refuse to install a package with an import comment
   260  unless it is being referred to by that import path. In this way, import comments
   261  let package authors make sure the custom import path is used and not a
   262  direct path to the underlying code hosting site.
   263  
   264  If vendoring is enabled (see 'go help gopath'), then import path checking is
   265  disabled for code found within vendor trees. This makes it possible to copy
   266  code into alternate locations in vendor trees without needing to update import
   267  comments.
   268  
   269  See https://golang.org/s/go14customimport for details.
   270  	`,
   271  }
   272  
   273  var helpGopath = &Command{
   274  	UsageLine: "gopath",
   275  	Short:     "GOPATH environment variable",
   276  	Long: `
   277  The Go path is used to resolve import statements.
   278  It is implemented by and documented in the go/build package.
   279  
   280  The GOPATH environment variable lists places to look for Go code.
   281  On Unix, the value is a colon-separated string.
   282  On Windows, the value is a semicolon-separated string.
   283  On Plan 9, the value is a list.
   284  
   285  GOPATH must be set to get, build and install packages outside the
   286  standard Go tree.
   287  
   288  Each directory listed in GOPATH must have a prescribed structure:
   289  
   290  The src directory holds source code.  The path below src
   291  determines the import path or executable name.
   292  
   293  The pkg directory holds installed package objects.
   294  As in the Go tree, each target operating system and
   295  architecture pair has its own subdirectory of pkg
   296  (pkg/GOOS_GOARCH).
   297  
   298  If DIR is a directory listed in the GOPATH, a package with
   299  source in DIR/src/foo/bar can be imported as "foo/bar" and
   300  has its compiled form installed to "DIR/pkg/GOOS_GOARCH/foo/bar.a".
   301  
   302  The bin directory holds compiled commands.
   303  Each command is named for its source directory, but only
   304  the final element, not the entire path.  That is, the
   305  command with source in DIR/src/foo/quux is installed into
   306  DIR/bin/quux, not DIR/bin/foo/quux.  The "foo/" prefix is stripped
   307  so that you can add DIR/bin to your PATH to get at the
   308  installed commands.  If the GOBIN environment variable is
   309  set, commands are installed to the directory it names instead
   310  of DIR/bin. GOBIN must be an absolute path.
   311  
   312  Here's an example directory layout:
   313  
   314      GOPATH=/home/user/gocode
   315  
   316      /home/user/gocode/
   317          src/
   318              foo/
   319                  bar/               (go code in package bar)
   320                      x.go
   321                  quux/              (go code in package main)
   322                      y.go
   323          bin/
   324              quux                   (installed command)
   325          pkg/
   326              linux_amd64/
   327                  foo/
   328                      bar.a          (installed package object)
   329  
   330  Go searches each directory listed in GOPATH to find source code,
   331  but new packages are always downloaded into the first directory
   332  in the list.
   333  
   334  See https://golang.org/doc/code.html for an example.
   335  
   336  Internal Directories
   337  
   338  Code in or below a directory named "internal" is importable only
   339  by code in the directory tree rooted at the parent of "internal".
   340  Here's an extended version of the directory layout above:
   341  
   342      /home/user/gocode/
   343          src/
   344              crash/
   345                  bang/              (go code in package bang)
   346                      b.go
   347              foo/                   (go code in package foo)
   348                  f.go
   349                  bar/               (go code in package bar)
   350                      x.go
   351                  internal/
   352                      baz/           (go code in package baz)
   353                          z.go
   354                  quux/              (go code in package main)
   355                      y.go
   356  
   357  
   358  The code in z.go is imported as "foo/internal/baz", but that
   359  import statement can only appear in source files in the subtree
   360  rooted at foo. The source files foo/f.go, foo/bar/x.go, and
   361  foo/quux/y.go can all import "foo/internal/baz", but the source file
   362  crash/bang/b.go cannot.
   363  
   364  See https://golang.org/s/go14internal for details.
   365  
   366  Vendor Directories
   367  
   368  Go 1.6 includes support for using local copies of external dependencies
   369  to satisfy imports of those dependencies, often referred to as vendoring.
   370  
   371  Code below a directory named "vendor" is importable only
   372  by code in the directory tree rooted at the parent of "vendor",
   373  and only using an import path that omits the prefix up to and
   374  including the vendor element.
   375  
   376  Here's the example from the previous section,
   377  but with the "internal" directory renamed to "vendor"
   378  and a new foo/vendor/crash/bang directory added:
   379  
   380      /home/user/gocode/
   381          src/
   382              crash/
   383                  bang/              (go code in package bang)
   384                      b.go
   385              foo/                   (go code in package foo)
   386                  f.go
   387                  bar/               (go code in package bar)
   388                      x.go
   389                  vendor/
   390                      crash/
   391                          bang/      (go code in package bang)
   392                              b.go
   393                      baz/           (go code in package baz)
   394                          z.go
   395                  quux/              (go code in package main)
   396                      y.go
   397  
   398  The same visibility rules apply as for internal, but the code
   399  in z.go is imported as "baz", not as "foo/vendor/baz".
   400  
   401  Code in vendor directories deeper in the source tree shadows
   402  code in higher directories. Within the subtree rooted at foo, an import
   403  of "crash/bang" resolves to "foo/vendor/crash/bang", not the
   404  top-level "crash/bang".
   405  
   406  Code in vendor directories is not subject to import path
   407  checking (see 'go help importpath').
   408  
   409  When 'go get' checks out or updates a git repository, it now also
   410  updates submodules.
   411  
   412  Vendor directories do not affect the placement of new repositories
   413  being checked out for the first time by 'go get': those are always
   414  placed in the main GOPATH, never in a vendor subtree.
   415  
   416  See https://golang.org/s/go15vendor for details.
   417  	`,
   418  }
   419  
   420  var helpEnvironment = &Command{
   421  	UsageLine: "environment",
   422  	Short:     "environment variables",
   423  	Long: `
   424  
   425  The go command, and the tools it invokes, examine a few different
   426  environment variables. For many of these, you can see the default
   427  value of on your system by running 'go env NAME', where NAME is the
   428  name of the variable.
   429  
   430  General-purpose environment variables:
   431  
   432  	GCCGO
   433  		The gccgo command to run for 'go build -compiler=gccgo'.
   434  	GOARCH
   435  		The architecture, or processor, for which to compile code.
   436  		Examples are amd64, 386, arm, ppc64.
   437  	GOBIN
   438  		The directory where 'go install' will install a command.
   439  	GOOS
   440  		The operating system for which to compile code.
   441  		Examples are linux, darwin, windows, netbsd.
   442  	GOPATH
   443  		See 'go help gopath'.
   444  	GORACE
   445  		Options for the race detector.
   446  		See https://golang.org/doc/articles/race_detector.html.
   447  	GOROOT
   448  		The root of the go tree.
   449  
   450  Environment variables for use with cgo:
   451  
   452  	CC
   453  		The command to use to compile C code.
   454  	CGO_ENABLED
   455  		Whether the cgo command is supported.  Either 0 or 1.
   456  	CGO_CFLAGS
   457  		Flags that cgo will pass to the compiler when compiling
   458  		C code.
   459  	CGO_CPPFLAGS
   460  		Flags that cgo will pass to the compiler when compiling
   461  		C or C++ code.
   462  	CGO_CXXFLAGS
   463  		Flags that cgo will pass to the compiler when compiling
   464  		C++ code.
   465  	CGO_LDFLAGS
   466  		Flags that cgo will pass to the compiler when linking.
   467  	CXX
   468  		The command to use to compile C++ code.
   469  
   470  Architecture-specific environment variables:
   471  
   472  	GOARM
   473  		For GOARCH=arm, the ARM architecture for which to compile.
   474  		Valid values are 5, 6, 7.
   475  	GO386
   476  		For GOARCH=386, the floating point instruction set.
   477  		Valid values are 387, sse2.
   478  
   479  Special-purpose environment variables:
   480  
   481  	GOROOT_FINAL
   482  		The root of the installed Go tree, when it is
   483  		installed in a location other than where it is built.
   484  		File names in stack traces are rewritten from GOROOT to
   485  		GOROOT_FINAL.
   486  	GO_EXTLINK_ENABLED
   487  		Whether the linker should use external linking mode
   488  		when using -linkmode=auto with code that uses cgo.
   489  		Set to 0 to disable external linking mode, 1 to enable it.
   490  	`,
   491  }
   492  
   493  var helpFileType = &Command{
   494  	UsageLine: "filetype",
   495  	Short:     "file types",
   496  	Long: `
   497  The go command examines the contents of a restricted set of files
   498  in each directory. It identifies which files to examine based on
   499  the extension of the file name. These extensions are:
   500  
   501  	.go
   502  		Go source files.
   503  	.c, .h
   504  		C source files.
   505  		If the package uses cgo or SWIG, these will be compiled with the
   506  		OS-native compiler (typically gcc); otherwise they will
   507  		trigger an error.
   508  	.cc, .cpp, .cxx, .hh, .hpp, .hxx
   509  		C++ source files. Only useful with cgo or SWIG, and always
   510  		compiled with the OS-native compiler.
   511  	.m
   512  		Objective-C source files. Only useful with cgo, and always
   513  		compiled with the OS-native compiler.
   514  	.s, .S
   515  		Assembler source files.
   516  		If the package uses cgo or SWIG, these will be assembled with the
   517  		OS-native assembler (typically gcc (sic)); otherwise they
   518  		will be assembled with the Go assembler.
   519  	.swig, .swigcxx
   520  		SWIG definition files.
   521  	.syso
   522  		System object files.
   523  
   524  Files of each of these types except .syso may contain build
   525  constraints, but the go command stops scanning for build constraints
   526  at the first item in the file that is not a blank line or //-style
   527  line comment. See the go/build package documentation for
   528  more details.
   529  
   530  Non-test Go source files can also include a //go:binary-only-package
   531  comment, indicating that the package sources are included
   532  for documentation only and must not be used to build the
   533  package binary. This enables distribution of Go packages in
   534  their compiled form alone. See the go/build package documentation
   535  for more details.
   536  	`,
   537  }
   538  
   539  var helpBuildmode = &Command{
   540  	UsageLine: "buildmode",
   541  	Short:     "description of build modes",
   542  	Long: `
   543  The 'go build' and 'go install' commands take a -buildmode argument which
   544  indicates which kind of object file is to be built. Currently supported values
   545  are:
   546  
   547  	-buildmode=archive
   548  		Build the listed non-main packages into .a files. Packages named
   549  		main are ignored.
   550  
   551  	-buildmode=c-archive
   552  		Build the listed main package, plus all packages it imports,
   553  		into a C archive file. The only callable symbols will be those
   554  		functions exported using a cgo //export comment. Requires
   555  		exactly one main package to be listed.
   556  
   557  	-buildmode=c-shared
   558  		Build the listed main packages, plus all packages that they
   559  		import, into C shared libraries. The only callable symbols will
   560  		be those functions exported using a cgo //export comment.
   561  		Non-main packages are ignored.
   562  
   563  	-buildmode=default
   564  		Listed main packages are built into executables and listed
   565  		non-main packages are built into .a files (the default
   566  		behavior).
   567  
   568  	-buildmode=shared
   569  		Combine all the listed non-main packages into a single shared
   570  		library that will be used when building with the -linkshared
   571  		option. Packages named main are ignored.
   572  
   573  	-buildmode=exe
   574  		Build the listed main packages and everything they import into
   575  		executables. Packages not named main are ignored.
   576  
   577  	-buildmode=pie
   578  		Build the listed main packages and everything they import into
   579  		position independent executables (PIE). Packages not named
   580  		main are ignored.
   581  `,
   582  }