build hadoop 2.2 on windows

Question

I am trying to install hadoop on windows, it is so troublesome so far.

here is error i keep getting

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.2:exec (compile-ms-winutils) on project hadoop-common: Command execution failed. Cannot run program "msbuild" (in directory "C:\hdfs\hadoop-common-project\hadoop-common"): CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
[ERROR]
[ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command
[ERROR]   mvn <goals> -rf :hadoop-common

I have msbuild.exe, windows sdk7.1, cygwin64, maven3.0.5, jdk7 all set up in environment on my windows 7 x64 box.

This is hadoop 2.2.0 src which i downloaded from apache website.

under system environment, i have set

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319

this is the path to msbuild, but still doesn't work, does anyone know how to fix this?

thanks

update: I changed pom.xml at hadoop-common-project\hadoop-common a little from

<executable>msbuild</executable>

to

<executable>msbuild.exe</executable>

Now, I'm getting following error

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:exec-maven-plugin:1.2:exec (compile-ms-winutils) on project hadoop-common: Command execution failed. Process exited with an error: 1(Exit value: 1) -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
[ERROR]
[ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command
[ERROR]   mvn <goals> -rf :hadoop-common

Answer 1

I found the solution to this problem. I have VS 2012 on Windows 8.1 and faced this exact issue. I checked out the pom.xml under hadoop-common for that execution id and ran the following command

F:\HDP>msbuild F:\HDP\hadoop-common-project\hadoop-common\src\main\winutils\winutils.sln /nologo/p:Configuration=Release;OutDir=bin

It gave me the following exception

C:\Program Files(x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.targets(42,5): error MSB8020: The builds tools for Visual Studio 2010 (Platform Toolset ='v100') cannot be found.
To build using the v100 build tools, either click the Project menu or right-click the solution, and then select "Update VC++ Projects...". Install Visual Studio 2010 to build using the Visual Studio 2010 build tools.
[F:\HDP\hadoop-common-project\hadoop-common\src\main\winutils\libwinutils.vcxproj]

Since I do not have Visual Studio 2010 on my machine, the problem had to be in the solution. I opened the solution in VS 2012 and compiled it once. Executing maven again gave me another error but this time pointing to hadoop-common\src\main\native\native.sln. I opened that on VS 2012 too and no error.

Hope this helps

Thanks Rohit