invalid go:embed: build system did not supply embed configuration

[Jeeyuen-Rick]

I upgraded Go to 1.23.0 and golangci-lint 1.60.3, I get the following error message with existing project:

typechecking error: invalid go:embed: build system did not supply embed configuration\<path>/myfile.go:18:3: invalid go:embed: build system did not supply embed configuration"

I used //go:embed directive in my programs. Is there a way to fix this issue or workaround this issue? I don't have this linting error when my project is using Go 1.22.4 and golangci-lint 1.56.2.

[ldez]

Hello, this error is not new but I guess you have tried to skip/ignore it with an exclude rule.

As explained inside the documentation, linters cannot perform the analysis when there are typecheck errors. This is not related to golangci-lint itself but to how the analysis system works inside Go tooling.

typecheck errors are reported in the same style as linter reports/issues but are completely different because they are related to compilation problems (typecheck is not a linter).

The change inside v1.60.1 was to avoid side effects: most linters are not able to perform the analysis when there are typecheck errors, but some users thought it was working to just skip typecheck errors.

To be more explicit, before this change, most linters simply did not produce any reports because of the presence of typecheck errors.

So typecheck errors cannot be ignored/skipped.

The only way to "fix" is to provide the file required by the embed directive.

[Jeeyuen-Rick]

Thank you for the quick response and https://golangci-lint.run/product/changelog/#v1601 is helpful.

[cbandy]

I encountered this and found that it happens when the file I wanted to embed does not exist AND the golangci-lint cache is cleared.

1. When the embed file exists, golangci-lint run succeeds.
2. If I delete the embed file, golangci-lint run still succeeds.
3. If I golangci-lint cache clean, then golangci-lint run fails until I create the embed file.