Build error due to go.mod syntax

[hnanda21]

Hi Team,

Below is the error that is raised when trying to build malcontent/cmd/mal/mal.go with all the dependencies being installed.

go: errors parsing go.mod:
/root/malcontent/go.mod:3: invalid go version '1.23.4': must match format 1.23
/root/malcontent/go.mod:5: unknown directive: toolchain

Installation commands

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y wget git gcc libpkgconf-dev libssl-dev

export GO_VERSION=1.24.3

wget -P /tmp "https://dl.google.com/go/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "/tmp/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
echo "PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" >> $HOME/.bashrc
source $HOME/.bashrc

cd ~

git clone https://github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent
git clone https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara-x


RUSTUP_INIT_SKIP_PATH_CHECK=yes curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf > ./script.sh
sudo bash script.sh -y
source $HOME/.cargo/env
rustup install 1.85
rustup default 1.85


cargo install cargo-c
cd ~/yara-x
cargo cinstall -p yara-x-capi --release

cd ~/malcontent/cmd/mal
go build -tags static_link --ldflags '--extldflags "-static -lm"' mal.go
ls -alt

Thanks.

CC: @tstromberg

[hnanda21]

Adding to it, in attempt to fix the above error, tried to remove 'toolchain' directive line and modified go version to match the valid format (as suggested in the error).

Command: make out/mal

Output:

mkdir -p out
CGO_LDFLAGS="-L/root/malcontent/out/lib -Wl,-rpath,/root/malcontent/out/lib"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=" -I/root/malcontent/out/include"
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/root/malcontent/out/lib/pkgconfig"
go build -o out/mal./ cmd/mal
go: no module declaration in go. mod. To specify the module path:
go mod edit -module=example.com/mod
make: ***
*** [Makefile:192: out/mal] Error

Thanks.

[egibs]

Hey @hnanda21 -- this was probably fixed as part of #938. Can you try building again?

[hnanda21]

Error resolved. Thank you @egibs.