Commit b23fe724 authored by Carlos Sanchez's avatar Carlos Sanchez

Add gox installation instructions to Contributing

parent 74ec8115
......@@ -56,19 +56,32 @@ following steps in order to be able to compile and test Packer.
1. Install Go. Make sure the Go version is at least Go 1.2. Packer will not work with anything less than
Go 1.2. On a Mac, you can `brew install go` to install Go 1.2.
2. Set and export the `GOPATH` environment variable. For example, you can
add `export GOPATH=$HOME/Documents/golang` to your `.bash_profile`.
2. Set and export the `GOPATH` environment variable and update your `PATH`.
For example, you can add to your `.bash_profile`.
3. Download the Packer source (and its dependencies) by running
```
export GOPATH=$HOME/Documents/golang
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
```
3. Install and build `gox` with
```
go get github.com/mitchellh/gox
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/mitchellh/gox
go build
```
4. Download the Packer source (and its dependencies) by running
`go get github.com/mitchellh/packer`. This will download the Packer
source to `$GOPATH/src/github.com/mitchellh/packer`.
4. Make your changes to the Packer source. You can run `make` from the main
5. Make your changes to the Packer source. You can run `make` from the main
source directory to recompile all the binaries. Any compilation errors
will be shown when the binaries are rebuilding.
5. Test your changes by running `make test` and then running
6. Test your changes by running `make test` and then running
`$GOPATH/src/github.com/mitchellh/packer/bin/packer` to build a machine.
6. If everything works well and the tests pass, run `go fmt` on your code
7. If everything works well and the tests pass, run `go fmt` on your code
before submitting a pull request.
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