Sometimes IDEA won't properly detect the environment paths properly. This can happen becuase of many reasons, especially on Mac OS X and Linux, Windows is not reported to have similar issues.
Usually, the simplest way to fix this is to launch IDEA from the command line. If that doesn't work then read on:
- Linux --
You need to set GOROOT and GOPATH in /etc/environment
to match the current values from your .profile, .bashrc or .zshrc
After that, you need to restart your system for the changes to take effect.
If you are using Gnome and these variables are stored in .profile, you can change the .desktop file that launches IDEA and edit the Exect line to:
Exec=sh -c "/usr/local/idea/bin/idea.sh" %f
changing the path to idea.sh to the appropriate path of course.
- Mac OS X --
If you are launching the IDE the normal application launcher and you get the error message
about missing paths then you need to add GOPATH and GOROOT in /etc/launchd.conf to match the
values from your .bashrc or .zshrc.
Please note that /etc/launchd.conf does not exist by default, so you will need to create it with the following:
setenv GOROOT /usr/local/go
setenv GOPATH /Users/yourname/goIt's possible to apply these changes without a restart.
You can view more details here.
You can get more details about launchd.conf in its respective launchd.conf(5) Mac OS X Manual Page.
Don't forget to keep the values in sync.