The Icinga Project is providing Windows MSI packages under https://packages.icinga.com/windows/
Note: This is a developer documentation on how to build Icinga 2 on Windows!
Also see INSTALL.md for Linux build instructions.
- 32 or 64-bit system
- Visual Studio >= 14 2015
- CMake >= 2.6
- OpenSSL >= 1.0.1
- Flex and Bison
Visual Studio
Download from visualstudio.com
The Community Edition is available for free, and is what we use to build.
Workloads to install:
- C++ Desktop
- .NET Desktop
OpenSSL for Icinga
See our openssl-windows GitHub project.
You will need to install a binary dist version to 'C:\Program Files\OpenSSL'.
There is a Powershell script to help you downloading: .\tools\win32\download-openssl.ps1
Chocolatey
A simple package manager for Windows, please see install instructions.
Git
Best to use Chocolatey, see package details.
choco install git
Flex / Bison
Best to use Chocolatey, see package details.
choco install winflexbison3
CMake
Best to use Chocolatey, see package details or download from: cmake.org
choco install cmake
WIX
Best to use Chocolatey, see package details.
choco install wixtoolset
Boost
Download third party Windows binaries from: boost.org
For example: https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.65.1/binaries/boost_1_65_1-msvc-14.1-64.exe
Warnings:
- Must match your Visual Studio version!
- CMake might not support the latest Boost version (we used CMake 3.10 and Boost 1_65_1)
Run the installer exe.
Run with VC Native x64 Command Prompt:
powershell .\tools\win32\configure.ps1
powershell .\tools\win32\build.ps1
powershell .\tools\win32\test.ps1
See these scripts for details.
We are building Icinga 2 with AppVeyor for testing and CI integration.
Please check appveyor.yml
for our instructions.