From ebdbbbc000697519315414ec17e0f904ff02947d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Torkel Odegaard Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 09:44:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Updated building on windows instructions in the docs --- docs/sources/installation/windows.md | 6 ++++++ docs/sources/project/building_from_source.md | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/sources/installation/windows.md b/docs/sources/installation/windows.md index c5b03d6d508..e2acb76311a 100644 --- a/docs/sources/installation/windows.md +++ b/docs/sources/installation/windows.md @@ -9,4 +9,10 @@ page_keywords: grafana, installation, windows guide There are currently no binary build for Windows. But read the [build from source](../project/building_from_source) page for instructions on how to build it yourself. +## Building on Windows +The Grafana backend includes Sqlite3 which requires GCC to compile. So in order to compile Grafana on windows you need +to install GCC. We recommend [TDM-GCC](http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download). + +Copy conf/sample.ini to a file named conf/custom.ini and change the web server port to something like 8080. The default +Grafana port(3000) requires special privileges on Windows. diff --git a/docs/sources/project/building_from_source.md b/docs/sources/project/building_from_source.md index c316a22a495..8466dbd2736 100644 --- a/docs/sources/project/building_from_source.md +++ b/docs/sources/project/building_from_source.md @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ godep restore (will pull down all golang lib dependecies in y go build . ``` +# Building on Windows +The Grafana backend includes Sqlite3 which requires GCC to compile. So in order to compile Grafana on windows you need +to install GCC. We recommend [TDM-GCC](http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download). + ## Building frontend assets To build less to css for the frontend you will need a recent version of of node (v0.12.0),