Zutai's Blog: Build, install and run Hadoop 2.4 (2.4.0) on Windows 8 (64bit)

Zutai's Blog: Build, install and run Hadoop 2.4 (2.4.0) on Windows 8 (64bit)

Build, install and run Hadoop 2.4 (2.4.0) on Windows 8 (64bit) In short, the steps are: Install Java (jdk 7) Build Hadoop source in Cygwin Set up Hadoop environment in Windows Run Hadoop in Windows Following are detailed steps: Download OpenJDK 7 Window amd64 build from: https://github.com/alexkasko/openjdk-unofficial-builds#openjdk-unofficial-installers-for-windows-linux-and-mac-os-x Uncompress it, copy and rename the directory to C:\app\jdk1.7. Set JAVA_HOME=C:\app\jdk1.7, Path=...;C:\app\jdk1.7\bin in system variables. Install Cygwin 64 bit Devel: binutils Base: gzip System: procps Upper components in Cygwin may not be needed all. But I just installed them. I got the idea from requirements to build OpenJDK on Windows: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html Set up Cygwin Download Apache Maven 3.2.1 binaries, copy to C:\cygwin64\usr\local\apache-maven-3.2.1. Download Google Protocol Buffer windows binary, copy protoc.exe to C:\cygwin64\usr\local\bin.

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