Intellij Idea 14 compiling the Golang plugin

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The recent project was too much of a rush to write a blog for a long time.

The company has a new notebook computer, the original WIN8. And then back to Windows from Linux. Do not want to use win command line to go, win under too toss. Or the idea that's always used.

Golang plug-ins seem to update very frequently, are source code, so to compile their own.

The process is as follows:

1. Download the source code:

https://github.com/go-lang-plugin-org/go-lang-idea-plugin/releases/

2. Unzip, then open with idea.

3.ctrl+alt+shift+s, open the project configuration and select the Java JDK and IntelliJ plugin plateform two items in the SDK. Then in project, select the JDK as IntelliJ plugin plateform, which is the dependency of module. This is the point.

4. When finished, build-Prepare for Deployment, wait for the jar to generate the plugin.

Installation is simple, in setting, plugin inside, from the local disk installation.