Can't compile/install

[urvile]

src/unifiedbeat/main.go:40: cannot use unifiedbeat.New() (type *unifiedbeat.Unifiedbeat) as type "unifiedbeat/vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/beat".Beater in argument to "unifiedbeat/vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/beat".Run: *unifiedbeat.Unifiedbeat does not implement "unifiedbeat/vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/beat".Beater (wrong type for Cleanup method) have Cleanup(*"github.com/cleesmith/unifiedbeat/vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/beat".Beat) error want Cleanup(*"unifiedbeat/vendor/github.com/elastic/beats/libbeat/beat".Beat) error make: *** [install] Error 2 Had a dickens of a time getting the dependencies right.

[cleesmith]

If you are new to Go, there is a pre-compiled binary for Linux 64bit platforms ... just click on releases.

To compile correctly with the known/tested dependencies in the vendor folder:

• go version must be 1.6+
• ensure PATH, GOPATH, vendor settings in ~/.profile:
  • export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
  • export GOPATH=/home/someuser/go
  • export GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 (this is the default in Go 1.6+)
• mkdir -p ~/go/src/github.com/cleesmith
• cd ~/go/src/github.com/cleesmith
• git clone https://github.com/cleesmith/unifiedbeat
• cd unifiedbeat
• go get github.com/davecgh/go-spew (future todo: remove this dependency)
  • this is used by the Beats for testing
  • this app will not compile with later releases of libbeat, as Elastic is still developing the beats so there is no way to keep up with all of their releases
  • besides, the vendored release of libbeat included works properly, so I have frozen at that release
• go build

Hope that helps.

[cleesmith]

Retested compiling on:

$ uname -a
Linux box 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:   trusty

and the process described works.