Travis

Building a Go Project

What This Guide Covers #

Language versions and other build-environment specific information are in our reference pages:

The rest of this guide covers configuring Go projects in Travis CI. If you’re new to Travis CI please read our Getting Started and build configuration guides first.

Specifying a Go version to use #

You can use any tagged version of Go, a version with x in place of the minor or patch level to use the latest for a given major or minor version, or use master to get the latest version from source. All go version management is handled by gimme.

language: go

go:
  - "1.x"
  - "1.8"
  - "1.10.x"
  - master

Go Import Path #

The project source code will be placed in GOPATH/src/github.com/user/repo by default, but if vanity imports are necessary (especially for internal package imports), go_import_path: may be specified at the top level of the config, e.g.:

go_import_path: example.org/pkg/foo

Dependency Management #

The default install step depends on the version of go:

  • if go version is greater than or equal to 1.2

    go get -t ./...

  • if go version is older than 1.2

    go get ./...

  • or if any of the following files are present, the default install step is true, so you need to specify the install step yourself:

    • GNUMakefile
    • Makefile
    • BSDmakefile
    • makefile

godep support #

There is support included for godep when used with vendored dependencies such that the GOPATH will be prefixed with ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/Godeps/_workspace and PATH will be prefixed with ${TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR}/Godeps/_workspace/bin. Additionally, if the Godeps/_workspace/src directory does not exist,godep will be installed and a godep restore will be run.

It is important to note that using the older style Godeps.json at the top level is not supported.

All of the godep integration steps are performed prior to the separate go get and makefile steps listed above.

Note that the godep support is only activated if a custom install step is not specified.

Installing Private Dependencies #

As go get uses HTTPS to clone dependencies from GitHub rather than SSH, it requires a different workaround from our recommended way of handling private dependencies.

When cloning via HTTPS, git uses curl under the covers, which in turn allows you to specify a .netrc file, where you can store custom authentication credentials for specific domains, github.com for instance.

Go to your GitHub account and create a personal access token.

Screenshot of GitHub personal token

Make sure to give it the repo scope, which allows accessing private repositories.

To reduce access rights of the token, you can also create a separate user account with access to only the repositories you need for a particular project.

Copy the token and store it in a .netrc in your repository, with the following data:

machine github.com
  login <username>
  password <token>

Add this to your repository and add the following steps to your .travis.yml:

before_install:
  - cp .netrc ~
  - chmod 600 .netrc

You can leave out the second step if your .netrc already has access permissions set only for the owner. That’s a requirement for it to be read from curl.

Default Build Script #

Go projects assume that either Make or Go build tool are used by default. In case there is a Makefile in the repository root, the default command Travis CI will use to run your project test suite is

make

In case there is no Makefile, it will be

go test -v ./...

instead.

These default commands can be overridden as described in the general build configuration guide. For example, to omit the -v flag, override the script: key in .travis.yml like this:

script: go test ./...

The arguments passed to the default go test command may be overridden by specifying gobuild_args: at the top level of the config, e.g.:

gobuild_args: -x -ldflags "-X main.VersionString v1.2.3"

which will result in the script step being:

go test -x -ldflags "-X main.VersionString v1.2.3" ./...

To build by running Scons without arguments, use this:

script: scons

Build Matrix #

For Go projects, env and go can be given as arrays to construct a build matrix.

Environment Variable #

The version of Go a job is using is available as:

TRAVIS_GO_VERSION

Please note that this will expand to the real Go version, for example 1.7.4, also when go: 1.7.x was specified. Comparing this value in for example the deploy section could look like this:

deploy:
  ...
  on:
    condition: $TRAVIS_GO_VERSION =~ ^1\.7\.[0-9]+$

Examples #