x/tools/gopls: CommandLineArguments .go file with CGo fails to load

[siddharthab]

What did you do?

mkdir gopls-test && cd gopls-test
touch go.work
cat > main.go <<EOF
package main
import "C"
EOF
gopls imports ./main.go

What did you expect to see?

Imports list

What did you see instead?

gopls: /Users/sid.bagaria/Workspaces/gopls-test/main.go: no package metadata for file file:///Users/sid.bagaria/Workspaces/gopls-test/main.go

Internal errors

Gopls detected 22 internal errors, 1 distinct:

• /Users/sid.bagaria/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/x/tools/gopls@v0.16.2/internal/cache/load.go:376 (22)

stack-trace.txt

Build info

golang.org/x/tools/gopls v0.16.2
    golang.org/x/tools/gopls@v0.16.2 h1:K1z03MlikHfaMTtG01cUeL5FAOTJnITuNe0TWOcg8tM=
    github.com/BurntSushi/toml@v1.2.1 h1:9F2/+DoOYIOksmaJFPw1tGFy1eDnIJXg+UHjuD8lTak=
    github.com/google/go-cmp@v0.6.0 h1:ofyhxvXcZhMsU5ulbFiLKl/XBFqE1GSq7atu8tAmTRI=
    golang.org/x/exp/typeparams@v0.0.0-20221212164502-fae10dda9338 h1:2O2DON6y3XMJiQRAS1UWU+54aec2uopH3x7MAiqGW6Y=
    golang.org/x/mod@v0.20.0 h1:utOm6MM3R3dnawAiJgn0y+xvuYRsm1RKM/4giyfDgV0=
    golang.org/x/sync@v0.8.0 h1:3NFvSEYkUoMifnESzZl15y791HH1qU2xm6eCJU5ZPXQ=
    golang.org/x/telemetry@v0.0.0-20240829154258-f29ab539cc98 h1:Wm3cG5X6sZ0RSVRc/H1/sciC4AT6HAKgLCSH2lbpR/c=
    golang.org/x/text@v0.16.0 h1:a94ExnEXNtEwYLGJSIUxnWoxoRz/ZcCsV63ROupILh4=
    golang.org/x/tools@v0.22.1-0.20240829175637-39126e24d653 h1:6bJEg2w2kUHWlfdJaESYsmNfI1LKAZQi6zCa7LUn7eI=
    golang.org/x/vuln@v1.0.4 h1:SP0mPeg2PmGCu03V+61EcQiOjmpri2XijexKdzv8Z1I=
    honnef.co/go/tools@v0.4.7 h1:9MDAWxMoSnB6QoSqiVr7P5mtkT9pOc1kSxchzPCnqJs=
    mvdan.cc/gofumpt@v0.6.0 h1:G3QvahNDmpD+Aek/bNOLrFR2XC6ZAdo62dZu65gmwGo=
    mvdan.cc/xurls/v2@v2.5.0 h1:lyBNOm8Wo71UknhUs4QTFUNNMyxy2JEIaKKo0RWOh+8=
go: go1.22.1

[gabyhelp]

Related Issues and Documentation

• x/tools/gopls: \<DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM> #67963 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: \<DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM> #67964 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: \<DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM> #67965 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: \<DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM> #67966 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: broken import error with v0.13.0 #61687 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: “no metadata for \<package>” in workspaces setup #56470 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: strange output with gopls >= 0.3.0, no actual errors detected #37046 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: \<DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM> #40031 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: \<DESCRIBE THE PROBLEM> #40064 (closed)
• x/tools/gopls: negated build flag causes error #59346

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[findleyr]

Thank you so much for the investigation, and repro! I think this is morally a duplicate of #64557, so closing in favor of that one.