Why IntelliJ Idea cannot find location of GO SDK?

Question

1. I downloaded go1.4.darwin-amd64-osx10.8.tar.gz and extract it on my local directory.
2. Based on what Installing to a custom location says I added GOROOT in env vari

Answer 1

Please consider using one of the alpha releases for 0.9.16. I believe that alpha7 could be the more stable one rather than alpha9. You can get them from GitHub releases

The v1.0.0-alpha0 branch is, as the name implies, an alpha release and it's in the early stages of development, that's why there's no release done yet for it as well.

P.S. I'm one of the contributors to the plugin.