Install Operator SDK on Windows 11

[kavinduxo]

Installation Help

Has anyone managed to install Operator SDK on a Windows machine? I'm running with an error.

I tried with "install from GitHub source code"

https://sdk.operatorframework.io/docs/installation/#compile-and-install-from-master

Environment

Windows 11 x64
go version go1.19 windows/386

install cmd -->
$ make install

output -->
go install -gcflags "all=-trimpath=D:/tools/operatorSDK" -asmflags "all=-trimpath=D:/tools/operatorSDK" -ldflags " -X 'github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/internal/version.Version=v1.31.0+git' -X 'github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/internal/version.GitVersion=v1.31.0-3-gd21ed649' -X 'github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/internal/version.GitCommit=d21ed6499ebfc8ecdb4508e1c2a2a0cfd2a151f3' -X 'github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/internal/version.KubernetesVersion=v1.26.0' -X 'github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/internal/version.ImageVersion=v1.31.0' " ./cmd/{operator-sdk,helm-operator} /# github.com/containerd/containerd/archive C:\Users\KavinduGunathilake\go\pkg\mod\github.com\containerd\containerd@v1.4.11\archive\tar_windows.go:234:19: cannot use syscall.NsecToFiletime(hdr.AccessTime.UnixNano()) (value of type syscall.Filetime) as type "golang.org/x/sys/windows".Filetime in struct literal C:\Users\KavinduGunathilake\go\pkg\mod\github.com\containerd\containerd@v1.4.11\archive\tar_windows.go:235:19: cannot use syscall.NsecToFiletime(hdr.ModTime.UnixNano()) (value of type syscall.Filetime) as type "golang.org/x/sys/windows".Filetime in struct literal C:\Users\KavinduGunathilake\go\pkg\mod\github.com\containerd\containerd@v1.4.11\archive\tar_windows.go:236:19: cannot use syscall.NsecToFiletime(hdr.ChangeTime.UnixNano()) (value of type syscall.Filetime) as type "golang.org/x/sys/windows".Filetime in struct literal C:\Users\KavinduGunathilake\go\pkg\mod\github.com\containerd\containerd@v1.4.11\archive\tar_windows.go:239:17: cannot use syscall.NsecToFiletime(hdr.ModTime.UnixNano()) (value of type syscall.Filetime) as type "golang.org/x/sys/windows".Filetime in struct literal C:\Users\KavinduGunathilake\go\pkg\mod\github.com\containerd\containerd@v1.4.11\archive\tar_windows.go:257:27: cannot use syscall.NsecToFiletime(createTime.UnixNano()) (value of type syscall.Filetime) as type "golang.org/x/sys/windows".Filetime in assignment /# github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/internal/generate/clusterserviceversion/bases/definitions internal\generate\clusterserviceversion\bases\definitions\markers.go:172:11: cannot use math.MaxInt64 (untyped int constant 9223372036854775807) as int value in assignment (overflows) make: *** [Makefile:75: install] Error 2

Really appreciate your help on this :)

[varshaprasad96]

Operator SDK doesn't officially support or build binaries for Windows (https://sdk.operatorframework.io/docs/overview/#platform-support).

However, there have been instances where users could still build SDK binary from master on their windows machines. This error seems to be coming from github.com\containerd\containerd@v1.4.11. Looks like it may have an issue. Also, we have explicitly pinned containerd to 1.4.11 (

operator-sdk/go.mod

Line 243 in d21ed64

github.com/containerd/containerd => github.com/containerd/containerd v1.4.11

) because a bump in it breaks github.com/deislabs/oras.

I would suggest to start by checking if a bump in dependencies fixes these issues without breaking anything else in SDK. If so, we can merge that in master to fix it. Unfortunately, supporting windows builds has not been in our roadmap, but if you would like to try it out, we would appreciate any contributions.

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[kavinduxo]

In conclusion, Operator SDK is not working for Windows. First, I tried WSL2, and it worked fine even though it wasn't smooth. I always had issues with configurations for environment variables and all. What made me suffer the most was the frequent changes in configurations. So, I decided to go for a Linux-based OS. There it's working fine. Thanks for the comments.

[kirillyesikov]

Just doesn't work on Windows 10. Confirmed :D