Installing Golang from Source on RPi-OS for arm64

By R. S. Doiel, 2022-02-18

This are my quick notes on installing Golang from source on the Raspberry Pi OS 64 bit.

1. Get a working compiler
   1. go to https://go.dev/dl/ and download go1.17.7.linux-arm64.tar.gz
   2. untar the tarball in your home directory (it’ll unpack to $HOME/go)
   3. cd go/src and make.bash
2. Move go directory to go1.17
3. Clone go from GitHub
4. Compile with the downloaded compiler
   1. cd go/src
   2. env GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=$HOME/go1.17 ./make.bash
   3. Make sure $HOME/go/bin is in the path
   4. go version