To give you a bit of a background - The question above was because I had set the go compiler as go1.4 and Visual Studio code complained that 'gopls requires at least go1.12.0' while I was in the process of 'porting'.
On Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 2:16:24 PM UTC+1 Shiva wrote: > Thank you, that helps. > > Now, as I continue to work on 'porting', I have a question. The go > compiler that will be used for creating this 'bootstrap' version of go1.16 > - does this come from the go1.16 windows binary or the go1.4 windows > binary? I ask because I have 'produced' both of them on different > directories (as I should) and wanted to make sure I set the right > 'GOROOT'/'GOPATH'/'GOBIN' variables and/or PATH to be able to produce the > bootstrap version. > > On Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 10:08:20 PM UTC+1 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > >> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 1:00 PM Shiva <emailshiva...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > So I've now done the following steps as you suggested after removing >> all the previous traces of Go from my machine to start from the scratch. >> > >> > 1. Install go1.4 >> > 2. Set GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP to go1.4 >> > 3. git clone go1.16 >> > 4. Run make.bat to 'make' Go on windows just to confirm that it does >> build fine (which it clearly does) >> > >> > Now, I suppose I have to 'port' the current go1.16 src folder by >> creating 'nsx' files similar to 'linux'? I'm now working on them and >> hopefully will be able to break some ground. >> >> Yes. >> >> > But I also have a question - I think the reason we chose to port go 1.4 >> instead of the latest source is because the latest source requires a >> pre-existing go compiler and Nonstop (our target) machine didn't have one. >> I suppose your earlier response suggests that as long as the intermediate >> system has a pre-existing go compiler that can be used, it doesn't matter >> if the target environment doesn't have a Go compiler - we can still >> bootstrap the latest version of the source. I just wanted to confirm this >> as I continued. >> >> Yes. That is what bootstrap.bash is for. See the description in the >> comment near the start of bootstrap.bash. >> >> Ian >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/7bc70b92-e3a0-4249-b828-74a0762f626bn%40googlegroups.com.
