Hi, We had a few problems getting started using windows. Maybe some info could be added to the docs.
The first issue we had was that the setup did not seem to like the default distribution directory e.g. kafka_2.13-4.0.0 so we renamed that to kafka. "The input line is too long. The syntax of the command is incorrect." https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48834927/the-input-line-is-too-long-when-starting-kafka I put the distro in c:\Users\xxxxxxxx\apps\kafka and it worked with the user name being 8 chars. Rename the distro so the setup scripts will run on Windows (used dos> to avoid formatting of > in the email client) dos> rename kafka_2.13-4.0.0 kafka Change into the directory of your extracted or renamed distribution e.g. dos> cd kafka Once you change directory into the kafka directory the following commands should work at the "Command Prompt" (Powershell would be different) that mirror the Unix type commands in the Getting started documentation. See https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#quickstart Generate a Cluster UUID dos> FOR /f "usebackq tokens=* delims=" %A in (`.\bin\windows\kafka-storage.bat random-uuid`) do set "KAFKA_CLUSTER_ID=%A" Format Log Directories dos> .\bin\windows\kafka-storage.bat format --standalone -t %KAFKA_CLUSTER_ID% -c .\config\server.properties Start the Kafka Server dos> .\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties Stop the kafka Server dos> .\bin\windows\kafka-server-stop.bat .\config\server.properties Hopefully there is someone that has access to a windows machine that can check this out and maybe add it to the docs. Thanks, Eric Eric Richardson (ekrich on github) Software Arch & Eng Dept - A1/3832 231.944.6949 (m) 310.336.4172 (w) eric.k.richard...@aero.org<mailto:eric.k.richard...@aero.org>
