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Create and Edit Run/Debug Configurations

With the Navigation bar visible (View | Appearance | Navigation Bar), the available run/debug configurations are displayed in the run/debug configuration selector in the Run area:

The Edit Run Configuration window

GoLand provides the Run/Debug Configuration dialog as a tool for handling run/debug configurations: creating configuration profiles or changing the default ones.

Create a run/debug configuration

  1. Open the Run/Debug Configuration dialog in one of the following ways:

    • Select Run | Edit Configurations from the main menu.

    • With the Navigation bar visible (View | Appearance | Navigation Bar), choose Edit Configurations from the run/debug configuration selector.

    • Press Shift+Alt+F10, then press 0 or select the configuration from the popup and press F4.

  2. In the Run/Debug Configuration dialog, click the Add New Configuration icon (the Add New Configuration icon) on the toolbar or press Alt+Insert. The list shows the default run/debug configurations. Select the desired configuration type (for example, Go build).

    The fields that appear in the right-hand pane display the default settings for the selected configuration type.

    • Run kind: a scope that includes a file with the main function. You can select between the following scopes:

      • Directory: an application file is in the specified directory.

      • File: the full path to the an application file.

      • Package: the full path to the package with an application file.

    • Output directory: a directory for the executable file.

    • Run after build: execute the application after the build.

    • Working directory: a directory that is used for the built application. If you have any code that creates relative files or directories, they will be relative to this directory.

    • Environment: environment variables for your application.

    • Go tool arguments: arguments for the go tool (for example, -o).

    • Use all custom build tags: all tags that are applied during the build. Tags are listed in settings Ctrl+Alt+S under Go | Build Tags & Vendoring.

    • Program arguments: arguments for the built application.

    • Run with sudo: grant sudo privileges for the application.

    • Before launch: Activate tool window: add tasks that you want to launch before the launch of your application. To add a task click the Add button Alt+Insert and select the tool that you want to add.

    • Module: name of the current module.

    • Before launch: Activate tool window: add tasks that you want to launch before the launch of your application. To add a task click the Add button Alt+Insert and select the tool that you want to add.

  3. Apply the changes and close the dialog.

Edit an existing run/debug configuration

  1. Do one of the following:
    • From the main menu, choose Run | Edit Configurations.

    • With the Navigation Bar visible (View | Appearance | Navigation Bar), choose Edit Configurations from the run/debug configurations selector.

    • Press Shift+Alt+F10, then press 0 to display the Edit Configuration dialog, or select the configuration from the popup and press F4.

  2. In the corresponding run/debug configuration dialog, change parameters as required.

If a project has been created in an earlier version of GoLand, its run/debug configurations can be lost, when such a project is added to another project, already opened in the same window.

To avoid the loss of run/debug configurations, it is recommended that you open such a project once in the latest version, and only after being added to another project.

Enable the Services tool window

You can manage multiple run/debug configurations in the Services tool window. For example, you can start, pause, and stop several applications, track their status, and examine application-specific details.

  1. From the main menu, select Run | Edit Configurations or use the selector on the toolbar.

  2. In the Run/Debug Configurations dialog, select Templates from the list on the left.

  3. In the right-hand pane, expand the Configurations available in Services section.

  4. Click the Add button in the Configurations available in Services section and select the necessary run configuration type.

    You can add or remove multiple configuration types one by one.

    Note that the tool window will only display the configuration types for which you have created one or more configurations.

    Thus, if you add a configuration type for which no configurations exist in the project, this type will not be displayed in the tool window until you create a configuration of this type.

  5. Apply the changes and close the dialog. The Services tool window with the selected configurations will open.

Last modified: 23 March 2020