How to run it locally? about goatcounter HOT 7 CLOSED

However, this still requires installing goatcounter

Just fetch it from the releases

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You need to use go run ./cmd/goatcounter, rather than go run ., as that contains the package main.

But as mentioned: I would recommend using a release build unless you have a very specific reason not to.

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But as mentioned: I would recommend using a release build unless you have a very specific reason not to.

Why would I run a release locally?

./goatcounter-v2.5.0-linux-amd64 serve -dev
goatcounter-v2.5.0-linux-amd64: -dev flag was given but this doesn't seem like a GoatCounter source directory

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You need to run it from the source directory when you use -dev Because it loads some things from the filesystem. It's really just intended for development.

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I don't remember how I mananged to run it a half a year ago. Now

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 % pwd
/home/me/projects/var/goatcounter

% go run cmd/goatcounter 
package cmd/goatcounter is not in std (/usr/lib/go/src/cmd/goatcounter)

Other Go projects will run and compile no issue, as well as go fmt, for instance. So go is set up properly.

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a release goatcounter-v2.5.0-linux-amd64 serve shouldn't be in the dev mode and from the source directory because why would one want to run it? A release should be run in the prod. Or locally but without -dev, right?

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aaaaaah

I've just compiled it and this his resolved the issue.

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a release goatcounter-v2.5.0-linux-amd64 serve shouldn't be in the dev mode and from the source directory because why would one want to run it? A release should be run in the prod. Or locally but without -dev, right?

Yes; the -dev flag is really only intended if you want to do development. For example it will read the template files from disk so you don't need to recompile on changes. Things like that.

Normally you shouldn't even need the goatcounter source directory; just the release binary (or a binary you built yourself) is enough.

% go run cmd/goatcounter 
package cmd/goatcounter is not in std (/usr/lib/go/src/cmd/goatcounter)

This should be go run ./cmd/goatcounter. Without that ./ it will assume it's in the standard library, rather than local to your current directory.

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