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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
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 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:
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\pcre3. Next, run:
Build 32bit PCRE
1. Run:
2. Delete CMakeCache.txt:
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\pcre324. Next, run:
Installing OpenSSL development libraries
1. Download 32 and 64 bit builds from https://curl.se/windows/
2. Extract files into c:\dev\openssl32 and c:\dev\openssl directories accordingly.
3. After that remove extracted *.dll.a (dll call wrapper libraries) as MinGW prioritizes them before static libraries.
Compiling Zabbix agent 2
32 bit
Open MinGW environment (Windows command prompt) and navigate to build/mingw directory in the Zabbix source tree.
Run:
64 bit
Open MinGW environment (Windows command prompt) and navigate to build/mingw directory in the Zabbix source tree.
Run:
Both 32- and 64- bit versions can be built on a 64-bit platform, but only a 32-bit version can be built on a 32-bit platform. When working on the 32-bit platform, follow the same steps as for 64-bit version on 64-bit platform.