go tool: no such tool "compile"

I recently started trying go to program some web based applications. At first, everything went fine, until I wanted to cross compile a binary for a different platform. I'm running MacOS and I wanted to compile a binary for linux, so I changed GOOS to linux and GOARCH to amd64. Since then, I always get the error message

go tool: no such tool "compile"

I'm using GoClipse, but running the compile manually by

go install hello.go

I get the same error. When changing back to compiling for darwin architecture, I get the same error now, so basically I'm totally unable to compile any code written in Go at the moment.

I installed it via the binary packages provided by google. In the end I actually got it back to work by just reinstalling it. Sometimes I'm just blind to the easy solution.

After that, I succeeded in cross compiling for linux machine after compiling the necessary cross-compilers by running env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=/usr/local/go ./make.bash --no-clean from the Go sources directory.

Thanks for all you efforts, sorry to have kept you busy on such a simple matter.

You have the wrong x64 or x386 package installed most likely. I had 32 installed running 64 bit. Reinstall fixed. Good luck.

You might be able to get away with that if you install Go 1.5, however if you use anything that depends on cgo, you will have to install a cross-compiler linker or install Linux on a virtual machine to be able to cross compile for Linux.

In my case is due to the fact that GOPATH and GOROOT are not set correctly, maybe you can check go env. Here is a discussion may be useful.

The way I figured-out what file is read and caused Go to look for the compile binary in the wrong place can be solved using:
$ strace go tool -n compile 2>&1 |grep openat

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/nwaizer/.config/go/env", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3

In that file, the IDE Goland, add a path to some project, causing the havoc.