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Can someone please dumb down go mod init for me?

I am trying to use the module capabilities of go to understand how they work. I have read the documentation and even replicated the exact process and for some reason the import of local modules. The file tree is like this

    src
     |
      main -> main.go
     |
     pkg -> pkg.go

The src folder has two folders main and pkg.

My question is where should I call go mod init and how should I name it. This has been confusing me for a while now.

Solution

  • I will use Windows paths, as that's what I use. First, make a new folder somewhere, for example C:\north. They go to that directory, and enter this:

    go mod init north

    Then make C:\north\north.go:

    package north

const Direction = "north"

    Then make C:\north\north\north.go:

    package main
import "north"

func main() {
   println(north.Direction)
}