Gogs build fails with "no buildable Go source files"

Question

I was trying to install gogs from source following this guide.

However once I navigated to the gogs directory and hit "go build" i got the following error "no buildable Go source files in [PATH-TO-GOGS]"

However all required files seem to be there.

Answer 1

I'll go ahead and answer my own question since I figured it out:

cd to gogs directory

nano gogs.go

Look at the first line for me it was

// +build go1.5

This means you will at least need go 1.5 to build. Now look at your go version:

go --version

If this number is smaller, this is the reason your build won't even start. In my case ubuntu was using an older version located at

whereis go

I deleted the old binary folder (probably something you shouldn't do) and reinstalled go from scratch, which gave me the corret version and the build worked fine.