How to make gopls recognize external github imports

Question

I recently started to work on a Go project.

When I use gopls with Coc, all external imports are not recognized such as "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus". It complains it could not find this module from neither $GOROOT and $GOPATH.

This project is managed by bazel, and all depedencies are listed in WORKSPACE file. Do I have any way to install all packages based on WORKSPACE file or I have to go install all packages one by one? If the latter, I would imagine keep package version synced is challenaging.

Answer 1

I've recently faced the same issue. For me, the problem was in GOPATH env variable. Make sure that you are exporting the variable in ~/.profile for example.

The correct path for Go you can query like that: go env GOPATH