Make it run on MS Windows.

[haroonabbasi]

i tried to make a build but i got error. image attached.

[beorn7]

See #503 - in short, we haven't anticipated the different ways an architecture manifests in the Makefile vs. how the Go download addresses look like.

In different news, never has ever tried Prometheus on Windows. You'll probably run into other issues, too.

[juliusv]

Just one more Unix-specific thing I'm aware of that won't work on Windows at the moment: if you're using service discovery to discovery your targets (vs. statically configuring them), we currently hard-code /etc/resolv.conf as the resolver configuration: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/blob/master/retrieval/target_provider.go#L33

[beorn7]

Let's use this issue as a catch-all for things that need to be done for a Windows port.

(We are completely dependent on external contributors here, though. I don't think any Windows machines exist at SoundCloud...)

[juliusv]

@haroonabbasi Given that #503 was fixed now, it would be interesting to hear whether that also fixes the Go download step for you on Windows, and whether you encouter any more errors further down the line.

[etishor]

👍 for having a timeseries db running on windows.

[juliusv]

@etishor please help us test it :)

[etishor]

Working on it :) cloned and trying to build on windows. I'm familiar with windows & unix dev environments, but i'm not familiar with go. Also "make" on windows...

As a side note, i'm looking for a good place to store data from my Metrics project and I hope prometheus can be that place.

[brian-brazil]

As an aside, if you have a working Python environment on Windows if you could verify the fix in prometheus/client_python#28 that'd be great.

[smyrman]

One thing that would make cross-platform easier, is if you got rid of the Makefile, as that would get rid of a lot of unneeded dependencies. You could keep it for internal usage of course, but It would be better for everyone if you cold simply install with:

 $ go get -u github.com/prometheus/prometheus/...

For commit db4df06, I tried to do some experiments with building prometheus on Windows:

make build fails on "hostname -s":

$ make build
sethostname: Use the Network Control Panel Applet to set hostname.
hostname -s is not supported.

This is the same result as:

$ HOSTNAME.EXE -s
sethostname: Use the Network Control Panel Applet to set hostname.
hostname -s is not supported.

I can set the hostname, and solve this buy editng Makefile.INCLUDE to call "hostname" without any parameters. However, ther are some aditional problems for me at lest, trying to use make:

"c:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\make\tools\bin\make.exe": Interrupt/Exception caught (code = 0xc00000fd, addr = 0x4227d3)

I don't blame you for this, obviously if make was installed correctly, this should not have happened...

Anyway, I tried building without a Makefile, to see how much needed doing to get that working.

$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/bin
$ go get -u ./...
$ go install ./...
# github.com/prometheus/prometheus/util/flock
util\flock\flock_windows.go:22: undefined: windowsFileLock
# github.com/prometheus/prometheus/web/blob
web\blob\blob.go:30: undefined: files

For line 22, I presume you really meant to say "windowsLock"', so I change the code a bit.
For the error in blob line 30, I realized you used a shell-script to generate static files. Trying to run this through bash however, I discover that xxd is not present on windows, and I didn't find it as a package on "Chocolately" (some windows package manager I stumbled upon).

So as a next step, I wrote some go:generate code using https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata instead of your shell scrip. Please see:

#782

[fabxc]

Anyone knows about the status of this – or has a system to test it? @juliusv

[juliusv]

I do have a Windows for games lying around, but haven't tested it yet. I can give it a try sometime...

[brian-brazil]

Per @matthiasr on https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/prometheus-developers/ssKrXbSFlkE Prometheus works on Windows!

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