About gb

gb is an alternative build tool for the Go programming language.

Read more about the rationale for gb.

Project-Based

gb operates on the concept of a project. A gb project is a workspace for all the Go code that is required to build your project.

A gb project is a folder on disk that contains a sub directory named src/. That’s it, no environment variables to set. For the rest of this document we’ll refer to your gb project as $PROJECT.

You can create as many projects as you like and move between them simply by changing directories.

Read more about setting up a gb project.

Installation

Installing, or upgrading gb is super simple (assuming you’ve already got Go installed)

go get github.com/constabulary/gb/...

Read more about installing and using gb.

Next Up

Now you’ve got gb installed, move on the to setting up a gb project.