Building Kafka 0.8.0 from sources on Windows

Prerequisites – Java JDK

Although Kafka is written in Scala, you do not need to install it. Only Java JDK is required.

Download Java JDK:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Install it and make sure you update the PATH environment variable according to instructions:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/webnotes/install/windows/jdk-installation-windows.html

Get the source

Do either the Clone-and-Checkout step or the Download step:

• Clone-and-Checkout
  Execute:

  git clone http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/kafka.git kafka
  cd kafka
  git checkout -b 0.8 remotes/origin/0.8

• Download
  Download from https://github.com/apache/kafka ("Download Zip" button) and unpack to the folder kafka. Execute:

  cd kafka

Build

Execute:

.\sbt.bat update
.\sbt.bat package
.\sbt.bat assembly-package-dependency

Update the bat files

Unfortunately the bat files for Kafka 0.8.0 are full of errors, so in order to start Zookeeper and Kafka they must be replaced. See Step 1, Update the bat files.

Update config for Windows

Update the config files according to Step 1, Update Config.

Run

To run, see Step 2, Start the server.

 

See Running Kafka 0.8.0 on Windows for more info on how to set up and run Kafka using the binary distribution.