after install and verify prereqs, cannot run starport app command

[barriebyron]

I verified my $PATH, the prerequisites:

• Golang >=1.16
• Protocol Buffer compiler
• Node.js >=12.19.0

I tried running this command:

starport app github.com/barriebyron/myapp but got this error message:

myapp/query.proto:4:1: warning: Import google/api/annotations.proto is unused.
myapp/query.proto:5:1: warning: Import cosmos/base/query/v1beta1/pagination.proto is unused.
protoc-gen-gocosmos: program not found or is not executable
Please specify a program using absolute path or make sure the program is available in your PATH system variable
--gocosmos_out: protoc-gen-gocosmos: Plugin failed with status code 1.
: exit status 1

@lukitsbrian tried to replicate, but his environment is probably more fleshed out so we could not reproduce. Any ideas?

[barriebyron]

@fadeev also looked and we think this is "a proper bug"

[barriebyron]

could be M1?

[ilgooz]

Hey @barriebyron, what's the output of echo $PATH?

[barriebyron]

@ilgooz

➜  ~ echo $PATH
/Users/barriebyron/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/go/bin

[ilgooz]

Can you please add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH as well and try again?

export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin.

[barriebyron]

➜  ~ export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
➜  ~ starport app github.com/hello/world

world/query.proto:4:1: warning: Import google/api/annotations.proto is unused.
world/query.proto:5:1: warning: Import cosmos/base/query/v1beta1/pagination.proto is unused.
protoc-gen-gocosmos: program not found or is not executable
Please specify a program using absolute path or make sure the program is available in your PATH system variable
--gocosmos_out: protoc-gen-gocosmos: Plugin failed with status code 1.
: exit status 1

I followed the Starport install doc that we can update if needed

[ilgooz]

It should be beacause GOPATH is not set also. But it is not required if GOBIN is set.

Can you please follow the instructions here to see if it'll work this time? Then I think it would really nice to include this to our docs.

[barriebyron]

thanks @ilgooz it was a Go installation kerfluffle that was solved by making sure that $HOME/go/bin was in the $PATH env variable, my .zshrc file now includes:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH:$HOME/go/bin

[barriebyron]

@ilgooz how do we close this issue? (teach me!)

[ilgooz]