You need a Linux or an OSX environment, with Java and Docker installed to build the sources.
Prerequisites for running build and tests with gradle:
To compile go proxy in amd64 architecture for docker:
./gradlew build
To build the docker images, after compiling go proxy:
./gradlew distDocker
This will build the images:
actionloop-golang-v1.11: an image supporting Go sourcesactionloop: the base image, supporting generic executables ans shell scriptThe actionloop image can be used for supporting other compiled programming languages as long as they implement a compile script and the action loop protocol described below.
To run tests:
./gradlew test --info
If you want to develop the proxy and run tests natively, you can do it on Linux or OSX. Development has been tested on Ubuntu Linux (14.04) and OSX 10.13. Probably other distributions work, maybe even Windows with WSL, but since it is not tested YMMMV.
You need to install, of course go 1.11.0
Then you need a set of utilities used in tests:
Linux: apt-get install bc zip realpath OSX: brew install zip coreutils
NOTE: Because tests build and cache some binary files, perform a git clean -fx and do not share folders between linux and osx because binaries are in different format...
You can also run the tests in go, without using gradle with
cd openwhisk go test