Where to take sh for Windows suitable to build Hadoop?

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To compile Hadoop under Windows it is said to have sh program (in BUILDING.txt file), which is said to be contained in GnuWin32. Unfortunately, I can’t find one there, for example, in Sh-Utils.

Where can I take sh.exe, required for Hadoop compilation?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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They are telling you to get sh.exe from GnuWin32 because they don’t know shit about Windows. Here are some things wrong with GnuWin32:

GnuWin32 is hosted on SourceForge, which is a known badware site, and won’t even load if you are using uBlock Add-on
GnuWin32 doesn’t even provide sh.exe as you can see from their own site
Even if they did provide it, you wouldn’t want it. Most of GnuWin32 tools are years out of date

Just do the sane thing and get Cygwin.

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answered Oct 17 '15 at 16:49

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This is the question. Had the creators of `BUILDING.TXT` something in mind? – Suzan Cioc Oct 17 '15 at 17:54
I don't understan, whether I am the first to compile Hadoop under Windows? They have this note about Cygwin for many versions. – Suzan Cioc Oct 17 '15 at 19:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 26 '16 at 00:15

As mentioned earlier, sh.exe is not part of GnuWin32. My suggestion is to install git and set the environment path to use git binaries. Git includes all needed *nix like tool in windows for hadoop compilation.

Git download url: http://git-scm.com/download/win

Where to take sh for Windows suitable to build Hadoop?

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