# How to build custom beat on Windows machine?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-build-custom-beat-on-windows-machine/159872>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [December 7, 2018, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-build-custom-beat-on-windows-machine/159872 "2018-12-07T07:53:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![fillic2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fillic2002](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fillic2002)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2018, 7:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-build-custom-beat-on-windows-machine/159872/1 "2018-12-07T07:53:00Z")

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Looks like there are so many dependencies in order to create a custom beat... didn't like..... I am trying to build a simple custom beat and i dont know how to run "make setup" in windows. If the code is in GOlang why there is no go compile? Can someone please help what is alternate to build custom beat in windows?

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**Author:** ![fillic2002](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fillic2002](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fillic2002)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-build-custom-beat-on-windows-machine/159872/2 "2018-12-10T08:00:48Z")

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Looks like make is an internal file that should be running from command prompt. Though its throwing error but i got the concept of make.

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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:** [January 7, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-build-custom-beat-on-windows-machine/159872/3 "2019-01-07T10:00:51Z")

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