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?
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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.
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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.
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