govisual-studio-code

The term 'go' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program

After running...

go run main.go

I get this error

go : The term 'go' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify
that the path is correct and try again.
Solution

  • SOLVED: Go to visual studio code (assuming this is installed) ctrl + shift + p to open command window type

    Go: current GOPATH

    this should give you a path create a system environment variable named GOPATH and add that path into that variable.

    Make sure the system environment variables are set to:

    GOPATH is set (in my case) to C:\Users[username]\go

    GOROOT is set to C:\go\

    IDE is Visual Studio Code.