Journalbeat for armv7l GNU/Linux

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Hi,

I want to compile and run Journalbeat for an armv7l architecture. Therefore my go build arguments are "GOOS=linux" and "GOARCH=arm". When I run journalbeat on my target machine it exits with

"ERROR instance/beat.go:856 Exiting: error creating reader for journal: journald reader only supported on linux"

I already compiled metricbeat and it is running with no problems on my target machine.

How can I successfully compile and run journalbeat?

Thanks in advance,
David

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Have you enabled cgo when compiling journalbeat?

GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm CGO_ENABLED=1 mage build
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No, I haven't. But now I get the error "gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-marm'". Internet that it has something to do with the cross compiler? Do I need a specific cross compiler?

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I managed to compile it with cygwin cross compiler. Thanks for your support!

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You can also run mage package in the root of journalbeat and it prepares packages of the binary, one of them is for arm architecture.