Build and use the Agent from source codes

When you want to build and use the Agent from source code, please follow these steps.

Install SkyWalking Go

Use go get to import the skywalking-go program.

// latest or any commit ID
go get github.com/apache/skywalking-go@latest

Also, import the module to your main package:

import _ "github.com/apache/skywalking-go"

Build the Agent

When building the project, you need to clone the project and build it.

// git clone the same version(tag or commit ID) as your dependency version.
git clone https://github.com/apache/skywalking-go.git
cd skywalking-go && make build

Next, you would find several versions of the Go Agent program for different systems in the bin directory of the current project. When you need to compile the program, please add the following statement with the agent program which matches your system:

-toolexec="/path/to/go-agent" -a

-toolexec is the path to the Golang enhancement program.
-a is the parameter for rebuilding all packages forcibly.

If you want to customize the configuration information for the current service, please add the following parameters, read more please refer the settings override documentation):

-toolexec="/path/to/go-agent -config /path/to/config.yaml" -a

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