Not able to build the MQ_exporter

[patrickschilderING]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile release "Update for MQ V9.1.3"
I have installed MQ libraries "9.1.0.3-IBM-MQC-Redist-LinuxX64.tar" under /opt/mqm/

When compiling i get the following error message:
# github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang/mqmetric
../../src/github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang/mqmetric/channel.go:259:44: undefined: ibmmq.MQCFH
../../src/github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-golang/mqmetric/discover.go:65:26: undefined: ibmmq.MQObject

I used the following commands to compile:

export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/projects/mq_exporter
export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$GOROOT/bin:$PATH
export PATH=$GOPATH:$GOROOT:$PATH
export MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH=/opt/mqm
export CGO_CFLAGS="-I$MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH/inc"
export CGO_LDFLAGS="-L$MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH/lib64 -Wl,-rpath,$MQ_INSTALLATION_PATH/lib64"
export CGO_LDFLAGS_ALLOW="-Wl,-rpath.*"

cd $HOME/projects/mq_exporter/cmd/mq_prometheus
env GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build *.go

[ibmmqmet]

Apart from anything else, you appear to be trying to cross-compile for Windows on a Linux machine. That's not going to work as the MQ libraries are platform-specific.

And your paths do not look right - I would expect to see "src/github.com/ibm-messaging" somewhere in them. As you would get from the instructions in the README:
git clone https://github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-metric-samples.git src/github.com/ibm-messaging/mq-metric-samples

[patrickschilderING]

Thanks for the feedback. The issue was indeed related to cross compiling. When compiling the code on windows the build was successful.
The issue can be closed.