Can Go compiler be installed on Windows?

Question

I\'ve been looking on golang.org for a Windows compiler, but I can\'t seem to find it. I can only see Linux and OS X compilers. Does anyone know if Go programming can be don

Answer 1

There are now installers for Windows, see Go under Windows

HelloWorld.go

package main

func main() {
    println("Hello World!");
}

Compile with 8g, link with 8l and then execute. Example:

8g HelloWorld.go
8l -o HelloWorld.exe HelloWorld.8
HelloWorld

Answer 2

Although there is no Windows version at the moment, it can presumably be compiled using Cygwin on a Windows platform.

Answer 3

Installation of Go on windows is straight forward if you use the experimental x32 windows port . Documentation of the steps for Go installation on windows can found here

You will probably also want the MinGW tools (bash, make, gcc, etc...): http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/

and the GTK+ files and tools (the "all-in-one bundle" includes pkg-config): http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php

Answer 4

Various efforts to port Go to windows are underway.

The most advance and that can already build and run some code is here: http://code.google.com/r/hectorchu-go-windows/

Answer 5

Yes! As of 2012 the Go homepage offers an official Windows installer (32 or 64 bit) https://golang.org/dl/

Answer 6

So if you, like me, are on Windows a lot of the time and want to do some Go programming right now, you can do it on a VM. I use VirtualBox running Ubuntu in seemless mode. I already had it set up because I like Linux better than Windows for a lot of things.

Building and working with Go has been totally painless for me. I have a Bash open in a terminal to run my build and try my app. The source directory is a shared folder between Windows and Linux (a VirtualBox feature but I'm sure VMWare has the same thing). I edit my code in Komodo Edit on Windows and use Mercurial for the same source code on both OSes.