Question: properly embedding assets when main in cmd/app

[rugwirobaker]

I have roughly the following structure on my project:

├── bin
│   └── blog
├── cmd
│   ├── doc.go
│   └── blog
│       └── main.go
├── dist
│   ├── css
│   │   ├── vendor~app~0027fd97.ad0a4c52.css
│   │   └── <sniped ....>
│   ├── favicon.ico
│   ├── img
│       └── app.png
│   ├── index.html
│   └── js
│        ├── app.d041f130.js
│        └── <sniped...>
├── doc.go
├── go.mod
├── go.sum
├── Makefile
└── pkged.go

pkged.go is at the root of the module and from cmd/blog/main.go I am calling pkger.Dir(/dist) which I pass to a custom filesystem http handler. It works perfectly when I run the binary ./bin/blog from this module/package but if I move it somewhere else like my home directory everything breaks apart.

This is the error I'm getting when I try to visit localhost:8080:

exit status 1: go: cannot find main module; see 'go help modules'

I have tried all kinds of workarounds including pkger -o cmd/blog but nothing seems to work. What is the proper way to do this, does it revolve around relative paths absolute paths like "github.com/my_name/my_project:dist"

[phanirithvij]

You can run pkger list and see "github.com/my_name/my_project:/dist" => pkger uses absolute imports, but relative to your go.mod file.

Can you post a reproducible code (zip maybe)? I was unable to reproduce it with your directory structure.

How do you use go build? I did

mkdir bin
pkger -o cmd/blog
go build -o bin/ ./cmd/blog
./bin/blog

cmdex.zip