My experience building Hadoop 2.7.1 on Windows Server 2012

Introduction

Building the Hadoop sources on windows could be cumbersome even when the official documentation states: “… building a Windows package from the sources is fairly straightforward”. There are several good resources containing the steps needed in order to successfully build a distribution. The most useful for me was this one:

Hadoop 2.7.1 for Windows 10 binary build with Visual Studio 2015 (unofficial)

I solved most of the hurdles with the directions in this blog post (thanks Kplitz Kahran), but I still had to suffer a little bit more. In this post I will show you the additional details I needed to fix.

You can try with the information in the link above and if you have no luck this solutions could help you.

Build winutils project – error C2065: ‘L’: undeclared identifier

I order to solve this problem; I just rewrote this line of code:

const WCHAR* wsceConfigRelativePath = WIDEN_STRING(STRINGIFY(WSCE_CONFIG_DIR)) L”\\” WIDEN_STRING(STRINGIFY(WSCE_CONFIG_FILE));

as:

const WCHAR* wsceConfigRelativePath = STRINGIFY(WSCE_CONFIG_DIR) “\\” STRINGIFY(WSCE_CONFIG_FILE);

Basically the concatenation of these variables are converted explicit to wide character (WCHAR) using a macro. I tested the concatenation without this explicit conversion and it worked. I am not sure why is failing without this, if someone could explain it, I will really appreciate it.

Build native project – LINK Error to libwinutils

The libwinutils library is an external reference of the native project. Verify in the project properties, Linker section, that the “Additional Library Directories” includes the targets of the libwinutils project.

Here a Screencast with the steps above:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin

After solving the previous errors, I thought I was the master of the universe until the next error damaged my enthusiasm again. Luckily the fix proposed by Rushikesh Garadade in this Stack Overflow thread solved the issue:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21752279/failed-to-execute-goal-org-apache-maven-pluginsmaven-antrun-plugin1-6-run-pr

After this, the build crashed again but fortunately was just a temporary network error. And finally the happiest image of the day:

BuildHadoop