Build and run JR on Windows

jr-on-windows.md

• Install MSYS2 https://www.msys2.org/

  winget install --id=MSYS2.MSYS2  -e

• Open the MSYS2 terminal and update the package database and core system packages:

  pacman -Syu

• After updating, close the terminal and open it again to continue the update process:

  pacman -Su

• Install Required Packages in MSYS2

  pacman -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake 
  mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config

• Clone the librdkafka repository:

  git clone https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka.git
  cd librdkafka

• Create a build directory and navigate into it:

  mkdir build 
  cd build

• Build librdkafka, this will install DLLs under C:/Program Files (x86)/RdKafka/bin/

  ${MINGW_PREFIX}/bin/cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" ..
  make install

• Clone the JR repository

  git clone https://github.com/ugol/jr
  cd jr

• Install and configure Go

  pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-go
  export GOROOT=${MINGW_PREFIX}/lib/go
  make all
  make copy_templates
  make copy_config
  make install