cmd/compile: cannot convert nil to type _Ctype on macOS High Sierra

[bep]

See fsnotify/fsevents#33

Note that I'm not the original reporter, but I thought I should raise this just in case.

According to the reporter:

ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.13
BuildVersion:	17A365
Go Go 1.10 beta1

-> % GOROOT=/usr/local/go110 /usr/local/go110/bin/go test
# github.com/fsnotify/fsevents
./wrap.go:38: constant 36893488147419103231 overflows uint64
./wrap.go:80: cannot use f (type FSEventStreamRef) as type _Ctype_ConstFSEventStreamRef in argument to func literal
./wrap.go:85: cannot use f (type FSEventStreamRef) as type _Ctype_ConstFSEventStreamRef in argument to func literal
./wrap.go:91: cannot use f (type FSEventStreamRef) as type _Ctype_ConstFSEventStreamRef in argument to func literal
./wrap.go:97: cannot use f (type FSEventStreamRef) as type _Ctype_ConstFSEventStreamRef in argument to func literal
./wrap.go:112: cannot convert nil to type _Ctype_CFUUIDRef
./wrap.go:115: cannot use nil as type _Ctype_CFAllocatorRef in argument to func literal
./wrap.go:119: cannot convert nil to type _Ctype_CFStringRef
./wrap.go:122: cannot use nil as type _Ctype_CFAllocatorRef in argument to func literal
./wrap.go:175: cannot use nil as type _Ctype_CFAllocatorRef in argument to _Cfunc_CFStringCreateWithCString
./wrap.go:175: too many errors

[odeke-em]

/cc @mdempsky @randall77

[ianlancetaylor]

This is unfortunate but intentional. See https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.10#cgo. Closing. Please comment if you disagree.

[Yamilquery]

So what is the solution to get running Go in Mac OS X Mojave?

➜  cells git:(master) go version
go version go1.11.2 darwin/amd64
➜  cells git:(master) go test
# github.com/pydio/cells/vendor/github.com/rjeczalik/notify
vendor/github.com/rjeczalik/notify/watcher_fsevents_cgo.go:51:216: cannot use nil as type _Ctype_CFAllocatorRef in argument to func literal
vendor/github.com/rjeczalik/notify/watcher_fsevents_cgo.go:165:47: cannot use nil as type _Ctype_CFAllocatorRef in argument to _Cfunc_CFStringCreateWithCStringNoCopy
vendor/github.com/rjeczalik/notify/watcher_fsevents_cgo.go:166:225: cannot use nil as type _Ctype_CFAllocatorRef in argument to func literal

[randall77]

You need to convert nil to 0 in the affected places.
There's a gofix module which should do the work for you.

go tool fix -r cftype <pkg>

[Yamilquery]

Thank you for your answer, but it doesn't work for me. The issue here occurs even if I exec the following:

➜  cells git:(master) go tool fix -r cftype ./
warning: no cgo types: exit status 1
warning: no cgo types: exit status 1
warning: no cgo types: exit status 1
warning: no cgo types: exit status 1
➜  cells git:(master) go test
# github.com/pydio/cells/vendor/github.com/rjeczalik/notify
vendor/github.com/rjeczalik/notify/watcher_fsevents_cgo.go:51:216: cannot use nil as type _Ctype_CFAllocatorRef in argument to func literal
vendor/github.com/rjeczalik/notify/watcher_fsevents_cgo.go:165:47: cannot use nil as type _Ctype_CFAllocatorRef in argument to _Cfunc_CFStringCreateWithCStringNoCopy
vendor/github.com/rjeczalik/notify/watcher_fsevents_cgo.go:166:225: cannot use nil as type _Ctype_CFAllocatorRef in argument to func literal
➜  cells git:(master)

Issue related :
pydio/cells#29

[randall77]

Then you will need to fix those 3 lines by hand.
Just replace nil with 0 at the locations reported by those errors.