I've tried to get Hadoop 2.6.2 to build on windows, and can do the non-native stuff if I disable javadocs.
what I can't do is build the native libs; and this also holds for branch-2 main: [exec] -- Building for: NMake Makefiles [exec] -- The C compiler identification is MSVC 16.0.30319.1 [exec] -- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 16.0.30319.1 [exec] -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe [exec] -- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe -- works [exec] -- Detecting C compiler ABI info [exec] -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done [exec] -- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe [exec] -- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0/VC/bin/amd64/cl.exe - - works [exec] -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info [exec] -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done [exec] -- Found JNI: C:/Java/jdk8/lib/jawt.lib [exec] -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! [exec] See also "C:/Work/hadoop-trunk/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/target/native/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log" . [exec] CMake Error at C:/bin/cmake-2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:108 (message): [exec] Could NOT find ZLIB (missing: ZLIB_LIBRARY ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR) [exec] Call Stack (most recent call first): [exec] C:/bin/cmake-2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:315 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE) [exec] C:/bin/cmake-2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/FindZLIB.cmake:85 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS) [exec] CMakeLists.txt:47 (find_package) [exec] So, no ZLIB Except I do have ZLIB, and certainly the native stuff built last year ZLIB_DIR=C:\bin\zlib-1.2.8 ZLIB_HOME=C:\bin\zlib-1.2.8\include ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\bin\zlib-1.2.8\include ZLIB_LIBRARY=C:\bin\zlib-1.2.8\lib\zdll.lib C:\Work\hadoop-trunk>dir %ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR% Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is F021-1FF9 Directory of C:\bin\zlib-1.2.8\include 02/09/2014 17:47 <DIR> . 02/09/2014 17:47 <DIR> .. 14/06/2012 12:00 15,508 zconf.h 14/06/2012 11:58 87,883 zlib.h 2 File(s) 103,391 bytes 2 Dir(s) 28,374,454,272 bytes free C:\Work\hadoop-trunk>dir %ZLIB_LIBRARY% Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is F021-1FF9 Directory of C:\bin\zlib-1.2.8\lib 18/07/2010 22:22 15,256 zdll.lib Does anyone have any suggestions here? I like to have a setup where I can build the native windows libs for the ASF releases