2 Building Zabbix agent 2 on Windows

Overview

This section demonstrates how to build Zabbix agent 2 (Windows) from sources.

Installing MinGW Compiler

1. Download MinGW-w64 with SJLJ (set jump/long jump) Exception Handling and Windows threads (for example x86_64-8.1.0-release-win32-sjlj-rt_v6-rev0.7z)
2. Extract and move to c:\mingw
3. Setup environmental variable

@echo off
       set PATH=%PATH%;c:\mingw\bin
       cmd

When compiling use Windows prompt instead of MSYS terminal provided by MinGW

Compiling PCRE development libraries

The following instructions will compile and install 64-bit PCRE libraries in c:\dev\pcre and 32-bit libraries in c:\dev\pcre32:

1. Download the PCRE or PCRE2 (supported since Zabbix 6.0) library (https://pcre.org/) and extract
2. Open cmd and navigate to the extracted sources

Build 64bit PCRE

1. Delete old configuration/cache if exists:

del CMakeCache.txt
       rmdir /q /s CMakeFiles

2. Run cmake (CMake can be installed from https://cmake.org/download/):

cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-O2 -g" -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-O2 -g" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\dev\pcre

3. Next, run:

mingw32-make clean
       mingw32-make install

Build 32bit PCRE

1. Run:

mingw32-make clean

2. Delete CMakeCache.txt:

del CMakeCache.txt
       rmdir /q /s CMakeFiles

3. Run cmake:

cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-m32 -O2 -g" -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-m32 -O2 -g" -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-Wl,-mi386pe" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\dev\pcre32

4. Next, run:

mingw32-make install

Building OpenSSL libraries using MinGW

1. If you don't have it installed already, install Cygwin and Perl for Cygwin and configure them according to instructions in the official Perl documentation.

2. Run:

perl Configure mingw64 no-shared no-ui-console no-tests no-capieng --libdir=lib --api=1.1.0 --prefix=c:\dev\openssl32 --openssldir=c:\dev\openssl32
       
       make build_sw
       
       make install_dev

Compiling Zabbix agent 2

32 bit

Open MinGW environment (Windows command prompt) and navigate to build/mingw directory in the Zabbix source tree.

Run:

mingw32-make clean
       mingw32-make ARCH=x86 PCRE=c:\dev\pcre32 OPENSSL=c:\dev\openssl32

64 bit

Open MinGW environment (Windows command prompt) and navigate to build/mingw directory in the Zabbix source tree.

Run:

mingw32-make clean
       mingw32-make PCRE=c:\dev\pcre OPENSSL=c:\dev\openssl