Yeah I guess my environment is not correctly configured. I got docker for 
windows to work by the way but while it doesn't fail, it doesn't seem to 
produce a package either.


On Monday, 20 March 2017 21:36:21 UTC+13, Rickard von Essen wrote:
>
> It should work to build on Windows, unfortunately I can't really help with 
> that. We build each commit in appveyor and that is green so I expect there 
> is something with you setup. 
>
> On 20 March 2017 at 02:05, Patrick van der Velde <petrikva...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I was really hoping to avoid having to create a Linux machine to build 
>> Packer on, but if that's the only way then I guess I'll have to make one.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Rickard von Essen <rickard....@gmail.com 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> If you have Docker for Windows the simplest way might be cross compile 
>>> in a container. 
>>>
>>> Go to the directory where you have packer checked out and run something 
>>> like:
>>>
>>> docker run -v %PWD%:/usr/src/packer -w /usr/src/packer golang:1.8 bash 
>>> -c XC_ARCH=amd64 XC_OS=windows make dev
>>>
>>> This should give you a Windows binary somewhere under pkg. 
>>>
>>> I don't have access to a computer so I haven't tested the above but it 
>>> should be close to correct. 
>>>
>>> On Mar 19, 2017 3:52 AM, "Patrick van der Velde" <petrikva...@gmail.com 
>>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to build a version of Packer from source code on windows 10 
>>>> for windows x64. I've followed the instructions on the github page but I'm 
>>>> having issues getting the build to work. So far I have:
>>>>
>>>> * Installed Go and set the GOPATH to the directory in which I want all 
>>>> my go code to appear
>>>>
>>>>         echo %GOPATH% returns E:\documents\Petrik\documents\software\go)
>>>>
>>>> * Got the source code via 
>>>>
>>>>         go get github.com/mitchellh/packer
>>>>
>>>> * Executing make returns
>>>>
>>>>         go get github.com/mitchellh/gox
>>>>         go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer
>>>>         go get github.com/kardianos/govendor
>>>>         govendor sync
>>>>         process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, govendor sync, ...) failed.
>>>>         make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
>>>>         make: *** [deps] Error 2
>>>>
>>>> I have tried to use the Linux subsystem but that has a known bug which 
>>>> makes it not possible to execute go (see 
>>>> https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/349).
>>>>
>>>> All I'm trying to do is to build an x64 version of Packer so that I can 
>>>> test a single line change I think I need to make to the Hyper-V provider.
>>>>
>>>> Can anybody give me a hand shaving this compilation yak?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Petrik
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