How do I use this?

[fgl87]

I installed go, I used GET to download the files from GIT, but when I use BUILD I can't turn the package in something executable. How do I use this?

[Hibbem]

Hi! I also had some trouble using this, as I am not familiar w/ Go.
Here are the steps to proceed:

• download Go binaries from the website: https://go.dev/dl/
• make sure go is installed correctly by executing go version. Make sure to open a new terminal, so the updated path can be loaded :)
• create a new folder and place this compress.go script inside:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"github.com/yani-/wpress"
)


func main() {
	// Define the output .wpress file
	archiveFilename := "output.wpress"

	// Create a new Writer instance
	writer, err := wpress.NewWriter(archiveFilename)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to create archive: %v", err)
	}

	folderToCompress := "/path/to/directory/to/add"

	// Add folder to the archive
	err = writer.AddDirectory(folderToCompress)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to add file to archive: %v", err)
	}

	// Close the writer to finalize the archive
	err = writer.Close()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Failed to close archive: %v", err)
	}

	fmt.Printf("Folder %s successfully compressed into %s\n", folderToCompress, archiveFilename)
}

• execute go mod init my-compressor and go mod tidy
• finally execute the script via go run compress.go

Hope this helps!

[Hibbem]

Hope it's still useful after almost 10 years :p