# Journalbeat for armv7l GNU/Linux
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-for-armv7l-gnu-linux/178911
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** journalbeat
**Created:** [April 29, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-for-armv7l-gnu-linux/178911 "2019-04-29T11:13:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@lecndav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lecndav)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-for-armv7l-gnu-linux/178911/1 "2019-04-29T11:13:19Z")
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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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-for-armv7l-gnu-linux/178911/2 "2019-04-29T12:46:35Z")
Have you enabled cgo when compiling journalbeat?
```auto
GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm CGO_ENABLED=1 mage build
```
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### Author:  [@lecndav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lecndav)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-for-armv7l-gnu-linux/178911/3 "2019-04-29T13:24:42Z")
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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### Author:  [@lecndav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lecndav)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-for-armv7l-gnu-linux/178911/4 "2019-04-29T14:04:40Z")
I managed to compile it with cygwin cross compiler. Thanks for your support!
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### Author:  [@kvch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kvch)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2019, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-for-armv7l-gnu-linux/178911/5 "2019-04-30T07:15:55Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/journalbeat-for-armv7l-gnu-linux/178911/6 "2022-11-04T07:05:51Z")