Is it possible to set the workdir to a different path?

For example, I want to run go build from the root path, but my source code is under a different directory, and I do not want to cd to it.

npm, for example, has the --prefix, which serves for this purpose.

CodePudding user response：

Yes, its possible.

go build -o [output file path/name] [source code file path/name]

For example, if your source code file is located in projectdir/code/src/ and want to build and save output to projectdir/code/out, do following:

$ go build -o projectdir/code/out/main projectdir/code/src/main.go

As per go build documentation:

If the named output is an existing directory or ends with a slash or backslash, then any resulting executables will be written to that directory.

So our above build command can be rewritten like this:

go build -o projectdir/code/out/ projectdir/code/src/main.go

and it will generate executable named main in projectdir/code/out/ directory.

For more details, run go help build

CodePudding user response：

No, this is not possible. Just cd into it.