go build does not appear to do anything | Discord Gophers | Page 1

echo isle Mar 3, 2024, 10:49 AM

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I am trying to build https://github.com/FiloSottile/age from source.

Cloning the repo and running go build (or go build -x -v) does not appear to actually build anything useful.

GitHub

GitHub - FiloSottile/age: A simple, modern and secure encryption to...

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. - FiloSottile/age

hardy marlin Mar 3, 2024, 10:53 AM

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The actual command seems to be inside the cmd folder, so you'd need to build both cmd/age-keygen and cmd/age:

go build ./cmd/age-keygen
go build ./cmd/age

echo isle Mar 3, 2024, 10:54 AM

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whoops!

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thanks

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it'd be nice if go build told me nothing was being built.

hardy marlin Mar 3, 2024, 10:55 AM

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it did, just not with words 😉

echo isle Mar 3, 2024, 10:55 AM

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by returning silently to the command line with no output?

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vibes based programming, got it.

hardy marlin Mar 3, 2024, 10:55 AM

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😛

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in reality, it would have been good if the author had a Makefile or similar

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