Hello,
I am currently using Ubuntu. I could not find any documentation to build a Windows binary within Linux.
I successfully built a library with Linux, however, I want to compile 2 binaries (Windows and Linux).
Is there a way to accomplish building a Windows binary in Linux?
We build all our binaries in Docker using our makefile, so at the very least you can run:
GOOS=windows make build
If you share more about what you want to do I can see if there are other options you should use.
Where are you applying this line too (what file/directory)?
I am running:
/tools/custom_builder/custom_builder --config …/telegraf.conf
It provides a Linux binary. I am trying also produce a Windows binary (.exe)
This is all while on a Ubuntu Distro Machine.
Ah in that case, you set GOOS for that command:
GOOS=windows /tools/custom_builder/custom_builder --config …/telegraf.conf
For example:
❯ GOOS=windows ./tools/custom_builder/custom_builder --config config.toml
2024-07-30T22:48:56Z I! Importing configuration file(s)...
2024-07-30T22:48:56Z I! Found 1 configuration files...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enabled plugins:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
aggregators (0):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
inputs (2):
exec plugins/inputs/exec
http_listener_v2 plugins/inputs/http_listener_v2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
outputs (1):
file plugins/outputs/file
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
parsers (2):
influx plugins/parsers/influx
json_v2 plugins/parsers/json_v2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
processors (0):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
secretstores (0):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
serializers (1):
influx plugins/serializers/influx
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2024-07-30T22:48:56Z I! Running build...
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -tags "custom,inputs.exec,inputs.http_listener_v2,outputs.file,parsers.influx,parsers.json_v2,serializers.influx" -ldflags " -X github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal.Commit=f9f029e7 -X github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal.Branch=master -X github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal.Version=1.32.0-f9f029e7" ./cmd/telegraf
❯ file telegraf.exe
telegraf.exe: PE32+ executable (console) x86-64, for MS Windows, 16 sections
Thank you very much jpowers. This absolutely worked and a .exe is produced with GOOS=windows.
The next issue is that when running the custom builder, the config file is not included in the binary although I have a display the same as yours where it says importing configuration file, found 1 configuration file.
When trying --test arguments in Windows, this is displayed:
2024-07-31T17:30:50Z E! unable to load default config paths: no config file specified, and could not find one in $TELEGRAF_CONFIG_PATH, /.telegraf/telegraf.conf, C:\Program Files\Telegraf\telegraf.conf, or C:\Program Files\Telegraf\telegraf.d/*.conf
This is what is displayed within Ubuntu
GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 ./tools/custom_builder/custom_builder --config …/telegraf.conf
2024-07-31T17:26:31Z I! Importing configuration file(s)...
2024-07-31T17:26:31Z I! Found 1 configuration files...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enabled plugins:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
aggregators (0):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
inputs (13):
cpu plugins/inputs/cpu
disk plugins/inputs/disk
diskio plugins/inputs/diskio
docker plugins/inputs/docker
kernel plugins/inputs/kernel
kernel plugins/inputs/kernel
mem plugins/inputs/mem
net plugins/inputs/net
netstat plugins/inputs/netstat
processes plugins/inputs/processes
processes plugins/inputs/processes
swap plugins/inputs/swap
system plugins/inputs/system
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
outputs (1):
influxdb_v2 plugins/outputs/influxdb_v2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
parsers (0):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
processors (0):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
secretstores (0):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
serializers (0):
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2024-07-31T17:26:31Z I! Running build...
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -tags "custom,inputs.cpu,inputs.disk,inputs.diskio,inputs.docker,inputs.kernel,inputs.kernel,inputs.mem,inputs.net,inputs.netstat,inputs.processes,inputs.processes,inputs.swap,inputs.system,outputs.influxdb_v2" -ldflags " -X github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal.Commit=f9f029e7 -X github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal.Branch=master -X github.com/influxdata/telegraf/internal.Version=1.32.0-f9f029e7" ./cmd/telegraf
The custom builder does not embed the config in the binary. The resulting binary still needs to get passed a configuration file to run.
In this case, I have 2 questions:
I wonder what the reasoning would be to compile a custom binary rather than using the pre-built telegraf compiled binary which is all inclusive? It seems like this would be a backwards step (especially considering 30mb vs 100mb is not much of a difference).
In other words, what would be the benefit?
Is there possibly a repo fork or someway to accomplish an embedded config within the binary? This being the goal.
For most users this is not a lot, but for some users it is a huge difference. Think embedded systems. Also consider use cases for users who want to strip out anything that is not actually used for security reasons.
- Is there possibly a repo fork or someway to accomplish an embedded config within the binary? This being the goal.
You could certainly fork the project and try this. Essentially you could embed the config in the code and load it rather than one of the default locations.
Is there possibly a repo fork or someway to accomplish an embedded config within the binary? This being the goal.
@QuickWick currently that’s not possible but it might be possible to add this feature. Please open a feature request and outline why you would need this feature!
heh I think security would have some concerns with users embedding their configs with creds in the binary 
Yeah I mean we allow users to build a custom binary with their config embedded. I could see a clear use-case for this… That is, the file is embedded at compile time…
