Walk is a "Windows Application Library Kit" for the Go Programming Language.

Its primarily useful for Desktop GUI development, but there is some more stuff.

Make sure you have a working Go installation. See Getting Started

Go 1.7.x doesn't work with walk anymore, Make sure you use Go 1.8.x or later.

Now run go get github.com/lxn/walk

The preferred way to create GUIs with Walk is to use its declarative sub package, as illustrated in this small example:

package main
import (
	"github.com/lxn/walk"
	. "github.com/lxn/walk/declarative"
	"strings"
)
func main() {
	var inTE, outTE *walk.TextEdit
	MainWindow{
		Title: "SCREAMO",
		MinSize: Size{600, 400},
		Layout: VBox{},
		Children: []Widget{
			HSplitter{
				Children: []Widget{
					TextEdit{AssignTo: &inTE},
					TextEdit{AssignTo: &outTE, ReadOnly: true},
				},
			},
			PushButton{
				Text: "SCREAM",
				OnClicked: func() {
					outTE.SetText(strings.ToUpper(inTE.Text()))
				},
			},
		},
	}.Run()
}

In the directory containing test.go run

go build

To get rid of the cmd window, instead run

go build -ldflags="-H windowsgui"

test.exe

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There are some examples that should get you started.

By default Go uses os threads with small stack sizes of 128KB. If your walk app crashes, it may be due to a stack overflow. Until a better solution is found, you can work around this by adding

import _ "runtime/cgo"

somewhere in your program. If you don't have gcc installed and on your PATH, you can alternatively add -linkmode internal to the -ldflags of your go build command like so:

go build -ldflags="-H windowsgui -linkmode internal"