[collectd] FW: Collectd on Windows

[Matthias Runge]

On 28/09/2020 20:18, Ranganath, Sunku wrote:
> Hi All,
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> Sending this on behalf of a colleague whose email didn’t get through the
> mailing list.
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> Could any one provide any pointers for Collectd on windows?
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> *From:* Kumar, Abhijit
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 23, 2020 9:23 PM
> *To:* collectd at verplant.org <mailto:collectd at verplant.org>
> *Subject:* Collectd on Windows
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> Dear Collectd Team,
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> We have requirement for our telemetry solution to work on Windows as
> well. Github project for collectd host windows base porting as well at
> https://github.com/collectd/collectd/  .  I also came to know from one
> of my colleague, Google was supposedly working on enabling Collectd to
> work better on windows. However we aren’t aware of more details on
> enablement or on how-tos. Kindly let us know:
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> -                      What should be timeline for Windows support from
> collectd project?
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> -                      What will be license to use it?
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>   * Will it be free of cost and available for use under MIT kind of license?
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Since it is built from collectd upstream source, the license should not
change, no?

>From looking at issues on github, I see two issues opened last year
complaining about collectd builds being broken on Windows. It looks like
you'll need cygwin.

https://github.com/collectd/collectd/issues/3140

If Intel would like to use collectd on Windows, it seems to be a good
issue to work on.

Matthias