[HADOOP-17193] Compile Hadoop on Windows natively

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.3
• Component/s: build, native

Environment

Windows 10

• Target Version/s: 3.1.3
• Assignee: Gautham Banasandra
• Reporter: Gautham Banasandra
• Created: 09/Aug/20 14:55
• Updated: 12/Jan/24 23:44

Description

Hadoop compiles flawlessly on Linux whereas, one has to hack around to compile it on Windows. The reason is obvious, there's a very large proportion of C/C++ codebase that's written in a platform specific manner that's amenable to Linux.

Thus, compiling Hadoop on Windows involves using the MinGW or the Cygwin toolchains. This third party dependency might be seen as a risk for those who want to deploy Hadoop on Windows nodes in production. The primary reason for this is that the MinGW/Cygwin runtimes on Windows don't produce core dumps. Whereas the Visual C++ runtime is able to do so, which greatly enables debugging.

Another reason to use the Visual C++ compiler for compiling Hadoop on Windows is that Visual C++ is native to Windows and one will have access to a large collection of tools that can be used for instrumentation, telemetry and fine-tuning the settings of Hadoop to run better on Windows.

Modern C++ has a plethora of APIs that one can use to write safe, cross-platform code, which can be leveraged to refactor the existing Linux specific code, thereby enabling compilation on Windows using the native Visual C++ compiler.

Issue Links

• blocks: HADOOP-18133 Add Dockerfile for Windows 10
• is a parent of: HDFS-16300 Use libcrypto in Windows for libhdfspp
• is a parent of: HDFS-16665 Fix duplicate sources for hdfspp_test_shim_static
• is a parent of: HADOOP-17196 Fix C/C++ standard warnings
• is a parent of: HADOOP-18357 Retarget solution file to VS2019
• is a parent of: HADOOP-18428 Parameterize platform toolset version
• is a parent of: HDFS-16178 Make recursive rmdir in libhdfs++ cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16205 Make hdfs_allowSnapshot tool cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16564 Use uint32_t for hdfs_find
• is a parent of: HDFS-16654 Link OpenSSL lib for CMake deps check
• is a parent of: HDFS-16667 Use malloc for buffer allocation in uriparser2
• is a parent of: HDFS-16680 Skip libhdfspp Valgrind tests on Windows
• is a parent of: HDFS-16681 Do not pass GCC flags for MSVC in libhdfspp
• is a parent of: HDFS-15385 Upgrade boost library to 1.72
• is a parent of: HDFS-15740 Make basename cross-platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-15843 [libhdfs++] Make write cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-15909 Make fnmatch cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-15955 Make explicit_bzero cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-15962 Make strcasecmp cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-15971 Make mkstemp cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-15976 Make mkdtemp cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16251 Make hdfs_cat tool cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16260 Make hdfs_deleteSnapshot tool cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16267 Make hdfs_df tool cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16278 Make HDFS snapshot tools cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16285 Make HDFS ownership tools cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16407 Make hdfs_du tool cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16419 Make HDFS data transfer tools cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16445 Make HDFS count, mkdir, rm cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16462 Make HDFS get tool cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16463 Make dirent cross platform compatible
• is a parent of: HDFS-16464 Create only libhdfspp static libraries for Windows
• is a parent of: HDFS-16465 Remove redundant strings.h inclusions
• is a parent of: HDFS-16466 Implement Linux permission flags on Windows
• is a parent of: HDFS-16467 Ensure Protobuf generated headers are included first
• is a parent of: HDFS-16468 Define ssize_t for Windows
• is a parent of: HDFS-16469 Locate protoc-gen-hrpc across platforms
• is a parent of: HDFS-16470 Make HDFS find tool cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16471 Make HDFS ls tool cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16472 Make HDFS setrep tool cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16473 Make HDFS stat tool cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16474 Make HDFS tail tool cross platform
• is a parent of: HDFS-16666 Pass CMake args for Windows in pom.xml
• is a parent of: YARN-11078 Set env vars in a cross platform compatible way
• is a parent of: HDFS-15903 Refactor X-Platform library
• is blocked by: HADOOP-18729 Fix mvnsite on Windows 10
• is blocked by: HADOOP-17399 lz4 sources missing for native Visual Studio project
• relates to: HADOOP-13223 winutils.exe is a bug nexus and should be killed with an axe.
• relates to: HDFS-15712 Upgrade googletest to 1.10.0