HOW-TO: Compiling Zabbix Agent on Windows

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 HOW-TO: Compiling Zabbix Agent on Windows v20110908
 by Ricardo Santos - rsantos at gmail
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Tested with Zabbix 1.8.6 on Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter 64bits

Requirements

* Windows SDK for Windows 7 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=3138
* Visual Studio 2010 Express http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-cpp-express
* Zabbix Source http://www.zabbix.com/download.php
* 7-Zip http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

--- Compiling for 32bits (x86)

> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat"
> cd "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\zabbix-1.8.6\build\win32\project"
> copy ..\include\config.h ..\..\..\include\
> nmake Makefile_agent

edit "resource.rc" file and replace "afxres.h" with "windows.h"

> nmake Makefile_agent (run again)

All binaries should be in "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\zabbix-1.8.6\bin\win32"

--- Compiling for 64bits (x64)

> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars64.bat"
> cd "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\zabbix-1.8.6\build\win32\project"
> copy ..\include\config.h ..\..\..\include\
> nmake Makefile_agent_x64

edit "resource.rc" file and replace "afxres.h" with "windows.h"

> nmake Makefile_agent_x64 (run again)

All binaries should be in "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\zabbix-1.8.6\bin\win64"