Setting up a Go build with Glide on CircleCI

I’ve lost a considerable amount of time trying to bind those things together, so I decided to write this quick post about it, so others could also benefit from it.

The tips are:

• Don’t install Glide using go get. Use apt;
• Override dependencies and test sections;
• You’ll have to do some link sorcery so import paths won’t be messed up.

The final circle.yml would look like this:

machine:
  environment:
    IMPORT_PATH: "/home/ubuntu/.go_workspace/src/github.com/myuser"
    APP_PATH: "$IMPORT_PATH/myproject"
dependencies:
  override:
    - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:masterminds/glide -y
    - sudo apt-get update
    - sudo apt-get install glide -y
test:
  pre:
    - mkdir -p "$IMPORT_PATH"
    - ln -sf "$(pwd)" "$APP_PATH"
    - cd "$APP_PATH" && glide install
  override:
    - cd "$APP_PATH" && go test -cover $(glide nv)

Replace myuser and myproject to the username and repository name of your project on github.

There is probably some easy way to make this work, but I coulnd’t find it.