# Errors attemping to compile filebeat 6.3 in AIX with bullfreeware gccgo

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-attemping-to-compile-filebeat-6-3-in-aix-with-bullfreeware-gccgo/197268>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [August 29, 2019, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-attemping-to-compile-filebeat-6-3-in-aix-with-bullfreeware-gccgo/197268 "2019-08-29T07:16:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Juanma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juanma/32/49076_2.png) [@Juanma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juanma)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-attemping-to-compile-filebeat-6-3-in-aix-with-bullfreeware-gccgo/197268/1 "2019-08-29T07:16:27Z")

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Hello!

I'm trying to compile filebeat 6.3 on AIX.

I have faced a few error which I have been able to solve searching over the net but I got a few ones about I cannot find anything.

The environment:  
I'm running AIX 7.1 with the following go related packages:

- gcc-go-8.3.0-1.ppc
- libgo-8.3.0-1.ppc
- libgo-devel-8.3.0-1.ppc

The GOROOT variable its pointing to /opt/freeware/lib/go/8.3.0/powerpc-ibm-aix7.1.0.0/go

When I try to make from filebeat directory either with make or with go build I have the following errors:

```
    # github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/elastic/go-txfile
../vendor/github.com/elastic/go-txfile/file.go:70:15: error: reference to undefined field or method 'Lock'
  if err = file.Lock(true, true); err == nil {
               ^
../vendor/github.com/elastic/go-txfile/vfs.go:27:8: error: use of undefined type 'osFileState'
  state osFileState
        ^
../vendor/github.com/elastic/go-txfile/file.go:72:21: error: argument 1 has incompatible type (missing method 'Lock')
   f, err = openWith(file, opts)

```

I also have:

```
    # github.com/elastic/beats/vendor/github.com/fatih/color
    ../vendor/github.com/fatih/color/color.go:21:12: error: reference to undefined identifier 'isatty.IsTerminal'
       (!isatty.IsTerminal(os.Stdout.Fd()) && !isatty.IsCygwinTerminal(os.Stdout.Fd()))
                ^

```

But about this one I read in the following post [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attempting-to-compile-filebeat-in-aix/143378/3](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attempting-to-compile-filebeat-in-aix/143378/3) that this error is from tests for windows so I'm just ignoring it.

Does anyone know what is happening?

Should I try to compile another version or its a issue with the compiler?

Thank you in advance.  
Best regards.

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**Author:** ![Juanma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juanma/32/49076_2.png) [@Juanma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juanma)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-attemping-to-compile-filebeat-6-3-in-aix-with-bullfreeware-gccgo/197268/2 "2019-08-29T10:41:28Z")

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Update:

The issue seems to happen when attemping to compile filebeat 6.3 with go 1.10.

I have downloaded Filebeat 6.2 and now the only error I got is the one cited at [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attempting-to-compile-filebeat-in-aix/143378/3](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attempting-to-compile-filebeat-in-aix/143378/3) where @pierhugues says that its a dependency defined by their test helpers.

Anyone know how to solve this one? In the post he says nothing about.

Thank you in advance

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**Author:** ![Juanma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/juanma/32/49076_2.png) [@Juanma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Juanma)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-attemping-to-compile-filebeat-6-3-in-aix-with-bullfreeware-gccgo/197268/3 "2019-08-29T12:14:02Z")

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Update:  
Well I was able to pass the test after modify some code

I modified the line of the ../vendor/github.com/fatih/color/color.go which caused the issue to:

```
        NoColor = false

```

This solved the issue.. but seems that I'm having now another one so I get the following error:

> # [github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/cmd](http://github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/cmd)
> 
> ../libbeat/cmd/keystore.go:193:23: error: reference to undefined identifier 'terminal.ReadPassword'  
> keyValue, err = tml.ReadPassword(int(syscall.Stdin))

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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 26, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/errors-attemping-to-compile-filebeat-6-3-in-aix-with-bullfreeware-gccgo/197268/4 "2019-09-26T12:14:07Z")

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