I use IntelliJ IDEA as golang IDE, and system environment have already set GOPATH，But IDEA can't load it

Question

I use IntelliJ IDEA as golang IDE in Windows , and system environment have already set GOPATH，but IDEA can\'t load $GOPATH.

I use go get github.com/astaxie/beego

Answer 1

IDEA plugin for Go does not understand GOPATH as it is defined by Go conventions, it uses only GOROOT, which is determined from SDK. The best workaround is to make symbolic links in GOROOT to packages in GOPATH:

$GOPATH/src/github.com       <--  $GOROOT/src/pkg/github.com
$GOPATH/src/code.google.com  <--  $GOROOT/src/pkg/code.google.com
... etc

It should be possible to do in Windows too.