# Create new beat fails at make set up

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-beat-fails-at-make-set-up/196206
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [August 21, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-beat-fails-at-make-set-up/196206 "2019-08-21T23:10:22Z")
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### Author: ![Anjana](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/anjana/32/52745_2.png) [@Anjana](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anjana)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2019, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-beat-fails-at-make-set-up/196206/1 "2019-08-21T23:10:22Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to create a new beat in Windows and it fails when I run the make command. I get the below error

C:\Users\anjana\go\src\[github.com](http://github.com)\Anjana\xstorebeat\>make setup  
C:\Users\anjana\go\bin\mage.exe  
panic: failed determine libbeat dir location: failed to find [github.com/elastic/beats/dev-tools/mage](http://github.com/elastic/beats/dev-tools/mage) in the project's vendor

goroutine 1 [running]:  
[github.com/elastic/beats/dev-tools/mage.LibbeatDir](http://github.com/elastic/beats/dev-tools/mage.LibbeatDir)(0xc00004f890, 0x1, 0x1, 0xc0000686e0, 0x42)  
C:/Users/anjana/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/dev-tools/mage/common.go:729 +0x1de  
[github.com/elastic/beats/dev-tools/mage.init.ializers()](http://github.com/elastic/beats/dev-tools/mage.init.ializers())  
C:/Users/anjana/go/src/github.com/elastic/beats/dev-tools/mage/config.go:45 +0x44a

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### Author: ![John\_Guzman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_guzman/32/83587_2.png) [@John\_Guzman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Guzman)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-beat-fails-at-make-set-up/196206/2 "2019-08-22T04:37:26Z")

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Beats development is not well supported on windows. All this process is best focused on linux environments. This happened to me and was the only way i found to solve it.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2019, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/create-new-beat-fails-at-make-set-up/196206/3 "2019-09-19T06:37:39Z")

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