Trouble using rules_go

[Limdi]

https://github.com/Limdi/testing_go

bazel build //lib:go_default_library
bazel test //lib:lib_test

These give me errors, my workaround is to add @io_bazel_rules_go to the Labels so the thing uses the @io_bazel_rules_go//go/toolchain stuff instead of trying to find //go/toolchain in my current WORKSPACE.

I guess the @// syntax was once supposed to mean "stay in this repo to resolve this dependency" or something, but I didnt get it to work that way and I read it only worked while some tools-folder was available as a symlink or something, nevermind about that I suppose.

edit: Maybe that doesnt work either, so how to do this?

[kchodorow]

I have a patch to fix this (Bazel should resolve //foo relative to the repository), but it hasn't been committed yet. Once the patch is in, these rules should work with Bazel HEAD. Before then, recommended workaround is to either put this who repository in your workspace or use @bazel_tools//tools/build_rules/go.

[raliste]

Same here.

Workaround was:

mkdir $WORKSPACE/build
cd $WORKSPACE/build
git clone https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go.git
cd ..
ln -sf $WORKSPACE/build/rules_go/go/ .

[Limdi]

Works for me, thanks!

[kchodorow]

FWIW, using Bazel with this change: bazelbuild/bazel@6f15335 and the go rules with this change: 3dc4372 should work now.