Advent of Code 2024

Playing around with the Advent of Code 2024 in Go.

Installing Go in WSL

# download the binary installer
curl -O -L https://go.dev/dl/go1.23.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz

# install, as per https://go.dev/doc/install
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go 
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.23.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz

# apply path modification on each login
cat << 'EOF' >> ~/.profile

# Add Go binary directory to PATH for Go development
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin"
EOF

# install Go debugger
go install -v github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv@latest

Build

go build ./cmd/aoccli/

Run

The basic run command is as follows, which will display usage information for the tool.

./aoccli

To understand where to put your test input, use the aoccli env command and note the Input dir path.

./aoccli env
Binary name: /home/user/code/aoc2024/aoccli
Binary path: /home/user/code/aoc2024
Current dir: /home/user/code/aoc2024
Input dir: /home/user/code/aoc2024/inputs

Test

go test ./...