Commit ebdbbbc0 by Torkel Odegaard

Updated building on windows instructions in the docs

parent 1edb13d7
...@@ -9,4 +9,10 @@ page_keywords: grafana, installation, windows guide ...@@ -9,4 +9,10 @@ page_keywords: grafana, installation, windows guide
There are currently no binary build for Windows. But read the [build from source](../project/building_from_source) There are currently no binary build for Windows. But read the [build from source](../project/building_from_source)
page for instructions on how to build it yourself. page for instructions on how to build it yourself.
## Building on Windows
The Grafana backend includes Sqlite3 which requires GCC to compile. So in order to compile Grafana on windows you need
to install GCC. We recommend [TDM-GCC](http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download).
Copy conf/sample.ini to a file named conf/custom.ini and change the web server port to something like 8080. The default
Grafana port(3000) requires special privileges on Windows.
...@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ godep restore (will pull down all golang lib dependecies in y ...@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ godep restore (will pull down all golang lib dependecies in y
go build . go build .
``` ```
# Building on Windows
The Grafana backend includes Sqlite3 which requires GCC to compile. So in order to compile Grafana on windows you need
to install GCC. We recommend [TDM-GCC](http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download).
## Building frontend assets ## Building frontend assets
To build less to css for the frontend you will need a recent version of of node (v0.12.0), To build less to css for the frontend you will need a recent version of of node (v0.12.0),
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