# \[SOLVED\] Build packetbeat on windows **URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/solved-build-packetbeat-on-windows/35161 **Category:** Beats **Tags:** packetbeat **Created:** [November 20, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/solved-build-packetbeat-on-windows/35161 "2015-11-20T14:28:41Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![bering](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/bering/32/4044_2.png) [@bering](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bering) #### Post date: [December 8, 2015, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/solved-build-packetbeat-on-windows/35161/7 "2015-12-08T22:12:50Z")
I have just tried to build packetbeat again from my mac, I cloned the new beats with git clone [https://github.com/elastic/beats](https://github.com/elastic/beats) From src/github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat I can run `make` without any errors but running `make crosscompile` for darwin and windows gives me this error: ``` go get github.com/mitchellh/gox mkdir -p build/bin gox -output="build/bin/{{.Dir}}-{{.OS}}-{{.Arch}}" -os="darwin windows" Number of parallel builds: 7 --> windows/amd64: github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat --> darwin/amd64: github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat --> windows/386: github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat --> darwin/386: github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat 4 errors occurred: --> darwin/amd64 error: exit status 2 Stderr: # github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/sniffer sniffer/sniffer.go:26: undefined: pcap.Handle sniffer/sniffer.go:31: undefined: pcap.Dumper --> windows/amd64 error: exit status 2 Stderr: # github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/sniffer sniffer/sniffer.go:26: undefined: pcap.Handle sniffer/sniffer.go:31: undefined: pcap.Dumper --> darwin/386 error: exit status 2 Stderr: # github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/sniffer sniffer/sniffer.go:26: undefined: pcap.Handle sniffer/sniffer.go:31: undefined: pcap.Dumper --> windows/386 error: exit status 2 Stderr: # github.com/elastic/beats/packetbeat/sniffer sniffer/sniffer.go:26: undefined: pcap.Handle sniffer/sniffer.go:31: undefined: pcap.Dumper make: *** [crosscompile] Error 1 ``` Can anyone see what I am missing and how the get past this message? --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/solved-build-packetbeat-on-windows/35161)._