--- /dev/null
+" Author: Joshua Rubin <joshua@rubixconsulting.com>, Ben Reedy <https://github.com/breed808>,
+" Jeff Willette <jrwillette88@gmail.com>
+" Description: go build for Go files
+" inspired by work from dzhou121 <dzhou121@gmail.com>
+
+call ale#Set('go_go_executable', 'go')
+call ale#Set('go_gobuild_options', '')
+
+function! ale_linters#go#gobuild#GetMatches(lines) abort
+ " Matches patterns like the following:
+ "
+ " file.go:27: missing argument for Printf("%s"): format reads arg 2, have only 1 args
+ " file.go:53:10: if block ends with a return statement, so drop this else and outdent its block (move short variable declaration to its own line if necessary)
+ " file.go:5:2: expected declaration, found 'STRING' "log"
+ " go test returns relative paths so use tail of filename as part of pattern matcher
+ let l:pattern = '\v^([a-zA-Z]?:?[^:]+):(\d+):?(\d+)?:? (.+)$'
+
+ return ale#util#GetMatches(a:lines, l:pattern)
+endfunction
+
+function! ale_linters#go#gobuild#Handler(buffer, lines) abort
+ let l:dir = expand('#' . a:buffer . ':p:h')
+ let l:output = []
+
+ for l:match in ale_linters#go#gobuild#GetMatches(a:lines)
+ call add(l:output, {
+ \ 'filename': ale#path#GetAbsPath(l:dir, l:match[1]),
+ \ 'lnum': l:match[2] + 0,
+ \ 'col': l:match[3] + 0,
+ \ 'text': l:match[4],
+ \ 'type': 'E',
+ \})
+ endfor
+
+ return l:output
+endfunction
+
+call ale#linter#Define('go', {
+\ 'name': 'gobuild',
+\ 'aliases': ['go build'],
+\ 'executable': {b -> ale#Var(b, 'go_go_executable')},
+\ 'cwd': '%s:h',
+\ 'command': {b ->
+\ ale#go#EnvString(b)
+\ . ale#Escape(ale#Var(b, 'go_go_executable')) . ' test'
+\ . ale#Pad(ale#Var(b, 'go_gobuild_options'))
+\ . ' -c -o /dev/null ./'
+\ },
+\ 'output_stream': 'stderr',
+\ 'callback': 'ale_linters#go#gobuild#Handler',
+\ 'lint_file': 1,
+\})