Greetings again!
I have Go installed, k6 installed as well.
Go ver: 1.16.4 (latest)
k6 ver: k6 v0.31.1 ((devel), go1.16.2, darwin/arm64)
Then I’ve tried to go install github.com/k6io/xk6/cmd/xk6@latest accordingly to instruction, no errors whatsoever, everything was okay.
Yet I do receive zsh: command not found: xk6 build.
Tried to install it with binary for my system as well (mac arm64), got:
go: cannot match "all": go.mod file not found in current directory or any parent directory; see 'go help modules' 2021/06/03 18:22:52 [ERROR] exec [go list -mod=readonly -m -f={{if .Replace}}{{.Path}} => {{.Replace}}{{end}} all]: exit status 1:
Could you tell me what I might have been missing, please?
By no means I am a Go programmer, so it is quiet hard for me to find out what is actually wrong.
Here is mine go list -m all:
go: inconsistent vendoring in /Users/admin/Documents/k6: github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3@v3.1.1: is explicitly required in go.mod, but not marked as explicit in vendor/modules.txt
github.com/k6io/xk6@v0.4.1: is explicitly required in go.mod, but not marked as explicit in vendor/modules.txt
Thanks in advance!
Hi there,
go install will place the binary in the location specified by the GOBIN environment variable, which defaults to $GOPATH/bin, and GOPATH defaults to $HOME/go. So make sure these are properly set in your environment, and that $GOPATH/bin is part of your $PATH. If it’s setup correctly, which xk6 should give you the path of the executable.
That said, the error zsh: command not found: xk6 build is intriguing since it appears zsh interpreted xk6 build as a single command, which happens if you run the string "xk6 build". Otherwise the error would be command not found: xk6. Are you running xk6 from an IDE or a terminal that might be mangling the command?
imiric,
thank you for navigating me to the real problem.
I’ve messed up with PATHs and homebrew, basically made few silly mistakes.
Issue is resolved, now I do get result after which xk6.
Thanks!
Yet I have another problem now, sadly 
So I’ve built:
xk6 build --with github.com/avitalique/xk6-file@latest
(extensions for writing to file)
It went all good, in the end I got a binary.
Then I’ve tried to ./k6 run samples/test.js, where test.js is exactly the same as in example for that extension.
As a result:
ERRO[0000] GoError: unknown module: k6/x/file at reflect.methodValueCall (native)
No idea why it didn’t work out, honestly.
This seems to be because the author of the extension isn’t using semantic versions … and there is some v0.1.1 that is cached in the go proxy server
$ curl "https://proxy.golang.org/github.com/avitalique/xk6-file/@v/list"
v0.1.1
which is before the tagged v1.2 that you need.
The fix is to run xk6 build --with github.com/avitalique/xk6-file@main
Hope this helps
edit: I opened an issue so that the repo gets properly tagged
Yes, it did work out! Thank you!
I have fixed tagging in xk6-file repo, so xk6 build --with github.com/avitalique/xk6-file@latest should work well now.
Hi, I have installed go and run go install go.k6.io/xk6/cmd/xk6@latest then run xk6 build --with github.com/avitalique/xk6-file@latest but got zsh: command not found: xk6. I also set GOPATH like this export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin, can you guys help me solve it?
Hi @duongnguyen2711,
Unable to locate(?) xk6 after installing it - #3 by imiric more or less explains what needs to be done to fix it.
Your PATH clearly doesn’t include clearly doesn’t include $GOPATH/bin in this case.
hi @mstoykov , I just want to install xk6-file successfully but cannot. Can you give me an example for $GOPATH/bin
Go installation path: Run: nano $HOME/.profile
and add the following
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
Note that
GOPATH must not be the same path as your Go installation.
In nano ~/.bashrc add
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin
You’ll have to restart to see the required changes
@bhavesh, thanks for adding this.
I just wanted to add another option to this. You no longer need to install xk6 locally. If you prefer, you can use the grafana/xk6 docker image to build your custom k6 binaries. See the guide for detailed usage of Docker.
