Kubebuilder init error on Windows

[sonaysevik]

Hello,

I am working on Windows, trying to run kubebuilder and build my first Kubernetes operator. I took the following steps so far:

• Downloaded Kubebuilder from github repo
• Ran go build -o kubebuilder.exe ./cmd/
• Then in the directory that I want to create operator ->go mod init kubetest
• PATH_TO_KUBEBUILDER/kubebuilder.exe init --domain example.com

And after some other logs, got following error:

go: creating new go.mod: module tmp
go: downloading sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools v0.3.0
go: found sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools/cmd/controller-gen in sigs.k8s.io/controller-tools v0.3.0
go: downloading github.com/spf13/cobra v0.0.5
go: downloading k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver v0.18.2
go: downloading k8s.io/apimachinery v0.18.2
go: downloading github.com/fatih/color v1.7.0
go: downloading k8s.io/api v0.18.2
go: downloading github.com/gobuffalo/flect v0.2.0
go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.8
go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.2
go: downloading golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20190920225731-5eefd052ad72
go: downloading k8s.io/utils v0.0.0-20200324210504-a9aa75ae1b89
go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20191022100944-742c48ecaeb7
go: downloading gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20190905181640-827449938966
go: downloading github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.8
go: downloading golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20191004110552-13f9640d40b9
go: downloading golang.org/x/text v0.3.2
C:\Users\sonay\go/bin/controller-gen object:headerFile="hack\boilerplate.go.txt" paths="./..."
/usr/bin/sh: C:Userssonaygo/bin/controller-gen: No such file or directory
make: *** [Makefile:55: generate] Error 127
Error: failed to initialize project with version "3-alpha": exit status 2
Usage:
kubebuilder init [flags]

I guess the problem is with the following issue but just cant figure out how to fix it:

C:\Users\sonay\go/bin/controller-gen object:headerFile="hack\boilerplate.go.txt" paths="./..."
/usr/bin/sh: C:Userssonaygo/bin/controller-gen: No such file or directory

Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks.

[camilamacedo86]

Hi @sonaysevik,

The project is officially supported just on Linux and Mac OS X. However, shows that all problems regard the win SO would be solved if we add as pre-requirement use the https://www.cygwin.com/ to work with. Could you please help us by verifying it?

Also, we have some issues raised to make it works with Win. See: #1405 Then, please let knows it if worked and your help/contribution to it would be very welcome. WDYT?

[camilamacedo86]

Closing this one as sorted out. However, please feel free to contribute to the project and/or raise new issues as well if you need.