# Has anyone tried to compile beats for Raspberry Pi (ARM) yet?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-tried-to-compile-beats-for-raspberry-pi-arm-yet/37716
**Category:** Beats
**Created:** [December 21, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-tried-to-compile-beats-for-raspberry-pi-arm-yet/37716 "2015-12-21T19:47:22Z")
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### Author:  [@kai5263499](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kai5263499)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-tried-to-compile-beats-for-raspberry-pi-arm-yet/37716/1 "2015-12-21T19:47:22Z")
When I tried to build beats from source I get the following:
```
make -C libbeat testsuite || exit 1; make -C packetbeat testsuite || exit 1; make -C topbeat testsuite || exit 1; make -C filebeat testsuite || exit 1; make -C winlogbeat testsuite || exit 1;
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/beats/libbeat'
# Setups environment if TEST_ENVIRONMENT is set to true
if [true = true]; then \
make integration-tests-environment; \
else \
make integration-tests; \
fi
make[2]: Entering directory '/root/beats/libbeat'
make prepare-tests
make[3]: Entering directory '/root/beats/libbeat'
mkdir -p build/coverage
# coverage tools
go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/cover
# golang.org/x/tools/cover
/usr/lib/go/src/pkg/golang.org/x/tools/cover/profile.go:55: undefined: bufio.NewScanner
scripts/Makefile:79: recipe for target 'prepare-tests' failed
make[3]: *** [prepare-tests] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/beats/libbeat'
scripts/Makefile:100: recipe for target 'integration-tests-environment' failed
make[2]: *** [integration-tests-environment] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/beats/libbeat'
scripts/Makefile:133: recipe for target 'testsuite' failed
make[1]: *** [testsuite] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/beats/libbeat'
Makefile:8: recipe for target 'testsuite' failed
make: *** [testsuite] Error 1
```
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### Author:  [@tudor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tudor)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-tried-to-compile-beats-for-raspberry-pi-arm-yet/37716/2 "2015-12-21T19:54:57Z")
Topbeat and Filebeat have been reported to work on RPi. Packetbeat is more complex because it uses CGO. Compiling should be pretty easy with `make crosscompile`. We also produce "nightlies" with all platforms including ARM [here](https://beats-nightlies.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html?prefix=jenkins/). Probably easiest is to try one of those binaries.
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-tried-to-compile-beats-for-raspberry-pi-arm-yet/37716/3 "2015-12-21T20:00:01Z")
interestingly it fails when building a test dependency (symbol from stdlib is missing?).
you can try e.g.:
```
$ cd topbeat
$ GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 go build
```
Have setup a proper [go dev-environment](https://golang.org/doc/install)?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/has-anyone-tried-to-compile-beats-for-raspberry-pi-arm-yet/37716/4 "2017-07-05T21:57:22Z")