How difficult is it to compile the Go programming language?

Question

Basically what the title says: what's the process for compiling your average go* file? drop it on a compiler and execute the result?

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*note: The OP edited the question replacing "go" with "C", before it was rolled back. So some of the answers won't make sense.

Answer 1

Did you take a look at the Go tutorial at http://golang.org/doc/go_tutorial.html

    Here's how to compile and run our program. With 6g, say,

        $ 6g helloworld.go  # compile; object goes into helloworld.6
        $ 6l helloworld.6   # link; output goes into 6.out
        $ 6.out
        Hello, world; or Καλημέρα κόσμε; or こんにちは 世界
        $

    With gccgo it looks a little more traditional.

        $ gccgo helloworld.go
        $ a.out
        Hello, world; or Καλημέρα κόσμε; or こんにちは 世界