# Grafana-server: problem with compilation and execution on Windows

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-server-problem-with-compilation-and-execution-on-windows/11462>\
**Category:** Grafana Plugin Development\
**Created:** [October 24, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-server-problem-with-compilation-and-execution-on-windows/11462 "2018-10-24T09:03:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![mcoimbra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@mcoimbra](https://community.grafana.com/u/mcoimbra)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2018, 9:03am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-server-problem-with-compilation-and-execution-on-windows/11462/1 "2018-10-24T09:03:33Z")

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Hello,

I’ve been developing Grafana on Linux and now wanted to do it on Windows.  
I can get it to compile and run on Linux using the instructions of the [README.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/README.md) on the Grafana repository.

On Windows, I can get it to compile using the [information provided here](http://docs.grafana.org/project/building_from_source/#building-on-windows), but when I launch and access via browser (locally), it produces a series of 404 errors in the server log.

These are the specs:

```
Win 7 x64 Professional
Python 3.7 x64 (configured for the system)
Python 2.7 (passed on to npm)
nodejs 10.12.0
npm 6.4.1
go version go1.11.1 windows/amd64

```

To build, I do the following:

```
# backend
cd %GOPATH%
cd src\github.com\grafana\grafana
go run build.go setup
go run build.go build # (or 'go build ./pkg/cmd/grafana-server')

# frontend
npm install -g yarn
yarn install --pure-lockfile
yarn watch

```

To launch `grafana-server` I do:

```
cd "%HOMEPATH%\go\src\github.com\grafana\grafana"
cmd /k ""%HOMEPATH%\go\src\github.com\grafana\grafana\bin\windows-amd64\grafana-server.exe" -config "C:\bin\grafana\grafana.ini" -homepath "%HOMEPATH%\go\src\github.com\grafana\grafana""

```

I have the lib, plugins and log directories in `C:\bin\grafana`.

After this, I can launch the server and access Grafana on the port I chose (localhost:8080) on the browser, but instead of getting to the login screen, I get four orange/red text messages saying there was a problem loading Grafana.  
The messages are as shown in this image:

 ![grafana_login_issue](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/2X/c/c28daa25458e4f3499e8dbdd1c4713df1da91f88.png)

Furthermore, on the server log, there are messages stating code 404 (not found) when trying to serve documents from `/public/`.  
The log messages are shown below.  
The most relevant ones are in bold in the beginning and end.

> **t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=eror msg=“Failed to detect generated javascript files in public/build” logger=settings**  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Starting Grafana” logger=server version=5.4.0-pre1 commit=2a83cfd91 compiled=2018-10-23T14:29:38+0100  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Config loaded from” logger=settings file=“\Users\MyUser\go\src\github.com\grafana\grafana/conf/defaults.ini”  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Config loaded from” logger=settings file=C:\bin\grafana\dre\_grafana.ini  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Path Home” logger=settings path=“\Users\MyUser\go\src\github.com\grafana\grafana”  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Path Data” logger=settings path=C:\bin\grafana\lib  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Path Logs” logger=settings path=C:\bin\grafana\log  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Path Plugins” logger=settings path=C:\bin\grafana\plugins  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Path Provisioning” logger=settings path=“\Users\MyUser\go\src\github.com\grafana\grafana\conf\provisioning”  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“App mode development” logger=settings  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing HTTPServer” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing SqlStore” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Connecting to DB” logger=sqlstore dbtype=sqlite3  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Starting DB migration” logger=migrator  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing PluginManager” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Starting plugin search” logger=plugins  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing InternalMetricsService” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing RenderingService” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing HooksService” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing SearchService” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing CleanUpService” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing NotificationService” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing ProvisioningService” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing AlertingService” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing TracingService” logger=server  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“Initializing Stream Manager”  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:46+0100 lvl=info msg=“HTTP Server Listen” logger=http.server address=127.0.0.1:8080 protocol=http subUrl= socket=  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:53+0100 lvl=info msg=“Request Completed” logger=context userId=0 orgId=0 uname= method=GET path=/login status=200 remote\_addr=127.0.0.1 time\_ms=54 size=22852 referer=  
> **t=2018-10-23T17:49:53+0100 lvl=info msg=“Request Completed” logger=context userId=0 orgId=0 uname= method=GET path=/public/build/app.e82c28188ca9525246e9.js status=404 remote\_addr=127.0.0.1 time\_ms=15 size=22784 referer=[http://127.0.0.1:8080/login](http://127.0.0.1:8080/login)  
> t=2018-10-23T17:49:53+0100 lvl=info msg=“Request Completed” logger=context userId=0 orgId=0 uname= method=GET path=/public/build/grafana.dark.css status=404 remote\_addr=127.0.0.1 time\_ms=33 size=22784 referer=[http://127.0.0.1:8080/login](http://127.0.0.1:8080/login)**

I’m not running any web server (neither Apache nor nginx), only `grafana-server`.

I am, however, running a database from an earlier version of Grafana (also version 5).  
On Linux it migrated well and everything is accessible, but on Windows this problem happens.  
I believe it is not related to the database because I also tried using a new database (hence no migration procedure would be needed) and the same thing happens.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you very much.