Can't find any of the go tools?

[polds]

I've been trying to install the plugin and not having any success, every time I start writing anything I see notifications like:

The 'gocode' command is not available. Use 'go get -u github.com/nsf/gocode' to install.

and all the other tools it needs too. Even those these tools are in fact installed.

I've verified $GOPATH/bin is in my $PATH and I'm running on Go 1.5.1 installed with brew.

[lukehoban]

What do you see when you run the Go: Current GOPATH command from the command palette (cmd-shift-p)?

If it's not what you expect, you can override the GOPATH to use by adding the "go.gopath" setting. See https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go#options.

[Hokutosei]

This is running me insane, I am sure i have all this tools, as I am using it in atom. but in VS, it keeps getting me this same error. how do i fix?
followed instructions from here https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/lukehoban.Go

[Hokutosei]

from settings.json

    "go.gopath": {
        "type": "string",
        "default": null,
        "description": "Specifies the GOPATH to use when no environment variable is set."
    }

[jchannon]

Is this the same as #11 ?

[polds]

D'oh. I've figured out my issue. I had literally copy + pasted what the instructions had:

{
    "go.buildOnSave": {
        "type": "boolean",
        "default": true,
        "description": "Run 'go build'/'go test' on save."
    },
    "go.lintOnSave": {
        "type": "boolean",
        "default": true,
        "description": "Run 'golint' on save."
    },
    "go.vetOnSave": {
        "type": "boolean",
        "default": true,
        "description": "Run 'go tool vet' on save."
    },
    "go.formatTool": {
        "type": "string",
        "default": "goreturns",
        "description": "Pick 'gofmt', 'goimports' or 'goreturns' to run on format."
    },
    "go.gopath": {
        "type": "string",
        "default": null,
        "description": "Specifies the GOPATH to use when no environment variable is set."
    }
}

Those are just the available options! Really your settings should look like this:

{
    "go.formatTool": "gofmt",
    "go.lintOnSave": true,
    "go.gopath": "/Users/peter/dev/go"
}

[lukehoban]

@jchannon Yes, I think these are the same issue.

For those you seeing this problem - could you share what you see when you run the Go: Current GOPATH command from the command palette (cmd-shift-p)?

[lukehoban]

@polds Good point, I've updated the README to make it more clear how to use those settings.

[polds]

Re: The comment above if your "Current GOPATH" shows Current GOPATH:[object Object] that's a hint your settings.json is incorrect.

[jchannon]

My GOPATH is as expected /Users/jonathan/Projects/Go but /Users/jonathan/Projects/Go/bin is in my PATH

So what's the plugin looking for? I assume the bin? Can't it just use $GOPATH/bin when looking for tools?

[lukehoban]

It shouldn't matter what is in your PATH, the tools are located relative to your GOPATH.

If you launch Code from a shell with a GOPATH set, you should see that running Go: Current GOPATH shows the correct value and tools should be located relative to there.

You can also override any other GOPATH settings by adding the "go.gopath" setting to your settings.json (cmd+,):

{   
    "go.gopath": "/Users/lukeh/go"
}

If anyone is having problems after these steps though, could you share details about your environment?

[Hokutosei]

setting it for an hour, but no luck. here is my go env

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="darwin"
GOOS="darwin"
GOPATH="/Users/jeanepaul/Developer/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/local/go"
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/local/go/pkg/tool/darwin_amd64"
GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=""
CC="clang"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fno-caret-diagnostics -Qunused-arguments -fmessage-length=0 -fno-common"
CXX="clang++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"

[lukehoban]

@Hokutosei What do you see when you run Go: Current GOPATH in VS Code? Did overriding GOPATH with the go.gopath setting as mentioned earlier in the thread work for you?

[jchannon]

How do you launch it from shell?

microsoft/vscode#77

[Hokutosei]

@lukehoban

// Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings
{
    "go.buildOnSave": true,
    "go.lintOnSave": true,
    "go.vetOnSave": true,
    "go.formatTool": "go fmt",
    "go.gopath": "/Users/jeanepaul/Developer/go"
}

after browser restart, Current GOPATH:/Users/jeanepaul/Developer/go hold on, i'm seeing light

[Gys]

I normally use Atom and that works fine. I also got the 'missing tools' message. Would be good if it tells which tool instead of offering to install them, because I like to know what is happening. Anyway, I checked the list and the one tool that VS Code by default needs in addition to the Atom setup is

go-find-references (go get -u -v github.com/lukehoban/go-find-references)

Also I found that VS Code has to be started from the commandline. Otherwise the message keeps coming up. This is also in the readme but maybe somebody missed it.
So I do this:

/Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron

Still, the first time the message appeared but after clicking it the editor was satisfied after all.

[Hokutosei]

@jchannon
in ~/.zshrc just add code below

# MS visual code
code () { VSCODE_CWD="$PWD" open -n -b "com.microsoft.VSCode" --args $* ;}

[jchannon]

@Hokutosei thanks that solved it plus I now get the find-references notification that @Gys mentoned and I think we're now all good

[Hokutosei]

nope, its not working for me. edit some structs, nope, indents are not fixed when cmd+r unlike in atom. oh no, spent almost 2hrs with this and its 3am. gtg

[lukehoban]

@Hokutosei sorry about that - if you do have time to share more details of your environment sometime that would be great.

[mgutz]

@lukehoban Shouldn't tools be searched in $GOROOT/bin? $GOPATH can be multiple paths like /Users/mgutz/go:/User/mgutz/workspace1. We download the Go tarballs and set $GOROOT explicitly. The Go tools will set $GOROOT internally if it is not overridden. go get installs to $GOROOT/bin if I'm not mistaken.

[dmitshur]

I think I'm seeing this issue too.

From Go documentation:

The GOPATH environment variable lists places to look for Go code. On Unix, the value is a colon-separated string. On Windows, the value is a semicolon-separated string. On Plan 9, the value is a list.

Is this extension implementing that correctly?

My GOPATH is a colon-separated string that includes a couple workspaces. Is that the reason it's not able to find any of the Go tools?

I'm not sure if it's related because I'd imagine it should use PATH to find binaries. My PATH also contains multiple entries.

Edit: Looks like it does correctly handle multiple GOPATH workspaces, at least in this one place here.

[Gys]

$GOROOT/bin is not the only place. External tools like goreturns and golint are installed with 'go get' and therefore are compiled to $GOPATH/bin

[lukehoban]

@shurcooL Looks like there was a bug in the logic for finding binaries when there are multiple workspaces. That should be fixed with b1e2a93. I pushed version 0.6.7 with that fix so if you update the extension you can see if that fixes this for you. There is still an issue where you will see "Analysis Tools Missing" if tools are not installed in the first of your workspaces, I'll open a separate issue on that.

[dmitshur]

I'm trying to see if 0.6.7 makes a difference. The way I was testing it previously is opening a .go file, adding some unneeded whitespace and seeing if it gets formatted (via gofmt) on save. It wasn't.

However, I've realized now that it seemingly not a supported feature. There are these options for on-save functionality:

• go.buildOnSave
• go.lintOnSave
• go.vetOnSave

But no go.formatOnSave, is there? I think it's a very basic and important feature, and I can't consider using more advanced features like lintOnSave if it's not running format on save. (Edit: I found #14 now.)

For now, I've tried right clicking and doing "Format Code", and that appears to work now (although I am seeing some strange behavior regarding newlines, perhaps it's to do with \n vs \r\n?). I haven't tried that with 0.6.6, but I am guessing it wouldn't have worked before, so your fix did fix that @lukehoban. Thank you!

[Hokutosei]

Greetings,

@lukehoban thank you for your efforts, everything seems to be working, those popping errors were gone, but still I need go fmt on save.. will be watching this close, want to use other IDE. and vscode looks beautiful, and fast. thanks again :)

[amff]

I am not versed in typescript nor an experienced github user to submit a pull request but,
from my debugging session (I really need support for multiple paths in gopath) it seems like the function getBinPath() in goPath.ts is searching the filesystem for executables without the .exe extension.

Should be a quick fix.

@lukehoban thank you for this great work

[lukehoban]

There are some improvements in 0f20bc6 and 72ef57a that should help with this.

If you upgrade to 0.6.10 you should no longer see most of the problems raised in this issue.

I'll close this for now, but if there are any specific problems remaining please re-open this or another issue.

[martinscholz83]

For me problem was that my machine is behind a proxy. After set http_proxy variable all is working fine.

[alecha]

Unfortunately I've the same problem, latest version of code and extension. My GOPATH is ok, I've also tried to set it in the settings.json file

[ramya-rao-a]

@alecha Can you elaborate on what issue are you facing?

[alecha]

the same of other users, my gopath is ok but when I save (so when the build runs) I get the error Error: Error: spawn EACCES

This is my settings.json file

{
    "go.buildOnSave": true,
    "go.lintOnSave": true,
    "go.vetOnSave": true,
    "go.formatTool": "goimports",
    "go.gopath": "MyGoPath"
}

[ramya-rao-a]

@alecha What do you see when you run "Go: Current GOPATH" in the command palette?

This current thread is about the extension not able to find the installed tools which I believe is not your case.

Can you try any of the other features? Are they erroring out too?

• Ctrl+Shift+O for outline of your file
• Right-click -> Format document
• Rename a variable

When you see the Errpr: spawn EACCES, what do you see in the console in the developer tools? You can open dev tools by Developer: Toggle Developer Tools

Also what version of VS Code and the Go extension are you using and which OS?

[alecha]

GoPath is ok: Current GOPATH:/Users/alessiocavaleri/Documents/Code/go/
MacOS 10.11.6, Code 1.6.1, extension 0.6.47

• renaming a variable does not throw an error
• format the document does not throw an error

the error is

EACCES: Error: spawn EACCES
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:1026:11)
    at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:313:11)
    at exports.spawn (child_process.js:392:9)
    at Object.exports.execFile (child_process.js:155:15)
    at Object.module.(anonymous function) [as execFile] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:195:20)
    at /Users/alessiocavaleri/.vscode/extensions/lukehoban.Go-0.6.47/out/src/util.js:113:12
    at Object.getGoVersion (/Users/alessiocavaleri/.vscode/extensions/lukehoban.Go-0.6.47/out/src/util.js:112:12)
    at Object.setupGoPathAndOfferToInstallTools (/Users/alessiocavaleri/.vscode/extensions/lukehoban.Go-0.6.47/out/src/goInstallTools.js:154:12)
    at activate (/Users/alessiocavaleri/.vscode/extensions/lukehoban.Go-0.6.47/out/src/goMain.js:43:22)
    at Function.t._callActivateOptional (/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/out/vs/workbench/node/extensionHostProcess.js:13:15169)

[ramya-rao-a]

@alecha What you see is the same as #585. The fix will be in the next update. Until then #585 has a workaround you can use

[emiljanogj]

Still having the same issue with the following settings:

{
"window.zoomLevel": 0,
"go.buildOnSave": true,
"go.lintOnSave": true,
"go.vetOnSave": true,
"go.buildTags": "",
"go.buildFlags": [],
"go.lintTool": "golint",
"go.lintFlags": [],
"go.vetFlags": [],
"go.testOnSave": false,
"go.coverOnSave": false,
"go.useCodeSnippetsOnFunctionSuggest": false,
"go.formatOnSave": true,
"go.formatTool": "goreturns",
"go.formatFlags": [],
"go.goroot": "C:/Users/Dell/Desktop/Go Compiler",
"go.gopath": "C:/Users/Dell/Desktop/Go Compiler/Chap1",
"go.inferGopath": false,
"go.gocodeAutoBuild": false
}

[ramya-rao-a]

@EGJ1996 Can you elaborate on what issue you are seeing?

[emiljanogj]

@ramya-rao-a Thanks for the response!

Error: spawn C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\Go Compiler\bin\go.exe ENOENT
gorename:
Error: spawn C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\Go Compiler\bin\go.exe ENOENT
godef:
Error: spawn C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\Go Compiler\bin\go.exe ENOENT
goreturns:
Error: spawn C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\Go Compiler\bin\go.exe ENOENT
golint:
Error: spawn C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\Go Compiler\bin\go.exe ENOENT
gotests:
Error: spawn C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\Go Compiler\bin\go.exe ENOENT

[ramya-rao-a]

@EGJ1996 And you are sure that go.exe exists in "C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\Go Compiler\bin" ?

[emiljanogj]

I fixed that issue but now I am still getting these popups:

[ramya-rao-a]

@EGJ1996 Is this the first time you are using the Go extension? Those pop ups appear because the extension cannot find the Go tools in your GOPATH.

If you are doing this for the first time, then you need to install the Go tools as per the pop ups.

If you have already installed these Go tools, then then find where you installed them and add the corresponding GOPATH in go.toolsGopath setting

[amazingandyyy]

I keep getting this error message. (MacOS VSCode)

and after I choose Install All

It only show

Installing 9 tools
  gocode
  gopkgs
  go-outline
  go-symbols
  guru
  gorename
  godef
  golint
  gotests

Installing gocode FAILED
Installing gopkgs FAILED
Installing go-outline FAILED
Installing go-symbols FAILED
Installing guru FAILED
Installing gorename FAILED
Installing godef FAILED
Installing golint FAILED
Installing gotests FAILED

9 tools failed to install.

gocode:
Error: Command failed: /usr/local/bin/go get -u -v github.com/nsf/gocode
package github.com/nsf/gocode: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath
package github.com/nsf/gocode: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

gopkgs:
Error: Command failed: /usr/local/bin/go get -u -v github.com/tpng/gopkgs
package github.com/tpng/gopkgs: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath
package github.com/tpng/gopkgs: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

go-outline:
Error: Command failed: /usr/local/bin/go get -u -v github.com/lukehoban/go-outline
package github.com/lukehoban/go-outline: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath
package github.com/lukehoban/go-outline: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

go-symbols:
Error: Command failed: /usr/local/bin/go get -u -v github.com/newhook/go-symbols
package github.com/newhook/go-symbols: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath
package github.com/newhook/go-symbols: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

guru:
Error: Command failed: /usr/local/bin/go get -u -v golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru
Fetching https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru?go-get=1 (status code 200)
get "golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru": found meta tag main.metaImport{Prefix:"golang.org/x/tools", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://go.googlesource.com/tools"} at https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru?go-get=1
get "golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru": verifying non-authoritative meta tag
Fetching https://golang.org/x/tools?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/tools?go-get=1 (status code 200)
package golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath
Fetching https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru?go-get=1 (status code 200)
get "golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru": found meta tag main.metaImport{Prefix:"golang.org/x/tools", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://go.googlesource.com/tools"} at https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru?go-get=1
get "golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru": verifying non-authoritative meta tag
Fetching https://golang.org/x/tools?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/tools?go-get=1 (status code 200)
package golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

gorename:
Error: Command failed: /usr/local/bin/go get -u -v golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename
Fetching https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename?go-get=1 (status code 200)
get "golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename": found meta tag main.metaImport{Prefix:"golang.org/x/tools", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://go.googlesource.com/tools"} at https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename?go-get=1
get "golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename": verifying non-authoritative meta tag
Fetching https://golang.org/x/tools?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/tools?go-get=1 (status code 200)
package golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath
Fetching https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename?go-get=1 (status code 200)
get "golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename": found meta tag main.metaImport{Prefix:"golang.org/x/tools", VCS:"git", RepoRoot:"https://go.googlesource.com/tools"} at https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename?go-get=1
get "golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename": verifying non-authoritative meta tag
Fetching https://golang.org/x/tools?go-get=1
Parsing meta tags from https://golang.org/x/tools?go-get=1 (status code 200)
package golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

godef:
Error: Command failed: /usr/local/bin/go get -u -v github.com/rogpeppe/godef
package github.com/rogpeppe/godef: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath
package github.com/rogpeppe/godef: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

golint:
Error: Command failed: /usr/local/bin/go get -u -v github.com/golang/lint/golint
package github.com/golang/lint/golint: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath
package github.com/golang/lint/golint: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

gotests:
Error: Command failed: /usr/local/bin/go get -u -v github.com/cweill/gotests/...
package github.com/cweill/gotests/...: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath
package github.com/cweill/gotests/...: cannot download, $GOPATH not set. For more details see: go help gopath

[ramya-rao-a]

@amazingandyyy In your case the error message in the console says that you have not set GOPATH
You can set it using go.gopath setting or better yet, close all VS Code winodws, set GOPATH as an environment variable outside VS Code, and open VS Code again

[klingtnet]

I found a solution for Gnome users and probably everyone else who starts code by its .desktop file:

• the problem is that if you start code through the application launcher then it will not inherit the environment variables exported from your .bashrc, .zshrc, .whateverrc
• the integrated terminal of vscode will show the correct GOPATH but only because it sources your shell-rc
• the solution is to create a ~/.profile which also exports your GOPATH
• this file is sourced by GNOME, and probably some other DE's, and makes the environment variables available for GUI applications
• the ~/.profile could simply look like this:

# ~/.profile
export GOPATH="$HOME/.go"

[kevinmcfarlane]

I ran into this over the weekend. None of the above worked. This is on Win 10 Pro Anniversary Update with all patches. And latest version of VS Code as I write.

However, looking at the "install tools" message it was saying run go get -v xxx
But clicking on Install or Install All would run go get -u -v xxx and report fail even though it was creating all the folders and files.

So I went to the command prompt and typed go get -v xxx for one of the tools and it worked. So I then repeated for the remaining tools and now it's fine.

[lunemec]

After update this morning the same issue happened to me as well. It says Cannot find "go" binary. Update PATH or GOROOT appropriately. I'm using mac, and Go is insalled with homebrew, so it has non-standart path. I'm setting this path in my .zshrc, and it works inside the integrated console, but I can't find a way to set PATH inside vscode. GOPATH is set correctly (as it worked yesterday before the update).

Got any ideas how can I get it working?

Also, there seems to be a bug with tools, it says:
The "gofmt" command is not available. Use "go get -v undefined" to install.
The "undefined" seems strange for "gofmt" :)

Thank you!

EDIT: reinstalling the Go extension worked. I hate auto-updates.

[ramya-rao-a]

@lunemec Must be the case of the files of the old version of the Go extension still lingering around. There is a bug on this in the VS Code repo, but I can't seem to find it.

But am glad you are unblocked, Happy Coding!

[rakyll]

I came across to this issue, re-installing and reloading the window didn't work. But, uninstalling, quitting VSCode, and reinstalling did the trick.

[ramya-rao-a]

@rakyll Which version of VS Code are you on?

[rakyll]

Version 1.13.0 (1.13.0)

Let me explain further how this is reproducible.

I am on a fresh new laptop with no Go installed. I installed VSCode and the Go extension before Go. Then, I installed Go from source and add the GOROOT/bin to my PATH. Even though, my bash was able to recognize the go command, VSCode was prompting the error message saying that I don't have go in my PATH.

[ramya-rao-a]

@rakyll At that point VS Code is not aware of the addition of GOROOT/bin to the PATH. At this point, if you close VS Code and open it from the terminal where you updated the PATH, VS Code should now be able to find Go. Does it not?

[rakyll]

@ramya-rao-a, it didn't. I exited VS Code and opened it from the terminal where go is available for a few times before giving up.

[klingtnet]

@rakyll What system are you using, Linux, Mac or Windows? Can vscode's integrated terminal find go?

[rakyll]

@klingtnet, I am on a Mac. The integrated terminal also couldn't find go.

[ramya-rao-a]

I'll try and get a repro and get back to this thread

[ZacharyZYH]

I was in the same trouble, and I found it was caused by the Git Path.
My Git Path was in Drive C which the Code did not have the license to operate. After I reinstalled Git in Drive E, the problem was solved.

[watchpoints]

I was in the same trouble https fetch failed: Get https://golang.org/x/tools/imports?go-get=1: dial tcp 216.239.37.1:443: connectex: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.