Hi all, I have been working with Mesos for the past months and I am very interested in its possibilities and the capabilities it offers.
Until now, I have been working with Mesos on Linux, and it works as a charm, but I was interested in joining Windows based systems to the clusters, and the possibilities it offer. When I searched for that possibility, I discovered that a functional demo had been done in August 2015 ( https://mesosphere.com/blog/2015/08/20/mesos-everywhere-apache-mesos-for-windows-server/) and I reached a question in StackOverflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33700919/roadmap-for-apache-mesos-on-windows) where they point out the Jira tickets that are being used to monitor the development progress. The StackOverflow answer even goes further and says that as of November 2015, the CMake-based build was pretty functional, even generating an agent binary. So I downloaded the source and went into building Mesos on Windows using Visual Studio 2015, but I ended with some compilation errors and no binary agent being generated. I would love to help in this task to my possibilities extents, but the truth is there is no documentation for Windows CMake build. After searching for two weeks without clue on how to continue, I decided to write to the list with my issues, hoping someone could help me. My idea is to contribute to the Windows port to the extent of my possibilities once I have figured out the real state of the art. Currently, after configuring CMake with ENABLE_LIBEVENT=1, REBUNDLED=1, AGENT_TARGET=mesos-slave, 3RDPARTY_DEPENDENCIES=<local directory with the contents of https://github.com/3rdparty/mesos-3rdparty> and Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64 as generator, it correctly generated a Mesos.sln. Then, I try to build Mesos.sln with: msbuild.exe Mesos.sln /t:Build /p:Configuration=Release;Platform=x64 And, after a while, it ends with two errors: error C2039: 'mknod': is not a member of 'os' error C2039: 'rdev': is not a member of 'os::stat'. Both are on Project stout_tests (rmdir_tests.cpp). The point is looking at the code, it is true that both functions are not there, so I am a bit confused. I imagine that, as the port to Windows is not yet finished, the build will not pass the tests, but I am unable to figure out what to do next, and I would appreciate some advice on how to build the current version of the Agent. Thank you very much.
