#package is not in GOROOT

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slender lintel
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hi guys, super easy question

I created a new project go mod init importer

No I created another dir for my package importer in there I have errors.go

in my main.go root I have the import "excel_importer/importer"

But it errors, I did basically try a lot but this it what is is

main.go:5:2: package excel_importer/importer is not in GOROOT (/opt/homebrew/Cellar/go/1.19.2/libexec/src/excel_importer/importer)

minor oak
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you named the module importer not excel_importer

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so the import is importer/importer

slender lintel
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uff

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that hurts

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thanks dude 😄

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I was playing around with excel_importer in the beginning but yes, make sense!

minor oak
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if that post proves insufficient feel free to ask

slender lintel
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i have a bunch of other errors

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kinda annoying coming from another language 😄

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importer.writeError(w, err)

now it says undefinied, tho I did importer "importer/importer"

and defined it in errors.go


func writeError(w http.ResponseWriter, err *CustomError) {
    w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
    w.WriteHeader(err.Code)
    json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(err)
}```
minor oak
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I would encourage you to do the go tour https://go.dev/tour/ it goes trough the basics of the language

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one of which being that symbols that start with a lowercase character are not exported, and therefore not "importable"

slender lintel
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Nah thats not really the way I learn, I did a basic tour now I am doing my own project

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ok make sense, cheers!

minor oak
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you are missing fundamental knowledge that the tour provides, it would be wise to take advantage of it

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you can then really learn however you prefer

slender lintel
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its running now, cheers 🙂

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will do the tour maybe now 😄

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how long does it take?

minor oak
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how much time do you have? 🙂

slender lintel
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😄

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limited, you know the game

minor oak
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The tour is not an extremely comprehensive resource, it is reasonably lean and can be done in a reasonably short amount of time
I would advise against speedrunning it, it will take as much time as you need it to take

slender lintel
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alright