I am pretty new to Go and Gogland. I just downloaded 'go1.8.3.windows-amd64.msi', installed it in C Drive and then started writing my programs in a notepad and then finally running it from a terminal.
I am facing some issues with Gogland. I have intelliJ IDEA Ultimate But I have been asked to use Gogland. I do not know whether this is the correct decision. You may want to advise me on the same. I just created a new project, gave it a name and added a go file into it which has simple helloworld code. But it shows me an error "GOPATH is empty".
As you could see the message at the top, just above the line package myfirstproject.
How to resolve it? Do I need to do something with environment variables. The PATH environment variable is already set to 'C:\Go\bin'.
When I click on the error message it asks me to configure GOPATH.
Answer
As of Go 1.8, the default GOPATH value is /go.
GOPATH is where your source code will live. You can either use the default one or use a custom one, for example, I use D:\go.
The IDE has not detected the GOPATH because none was set. When you download Go you are also presented with the installation instructions, please have a look at that as well.