Cannot build `GOOS=windows GOARCH=arm64`

[braydonk]

Component(s)

No response

What happened?

Description

There appears to be a build-tag definition problem of some kind with windows arm64 builds, and I think it started in v0.126.0.

Steps to Reproduce

make genotelcontribcol
cd ./cmd/otelcontribcol
GOWORK=off GOOS=windows GOARCH=arm64 go build .
# github.com/DataDog/gohai/cpu
../../../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/!data!dog/gohai@v0.0.0-20230524154621-4316413895ee/cpu/cpu_windows.go:270:15: undefined: computeCoresAndProcessors
# github.com/DataDog/gohai/platform
../../../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/!data!dog/gohai@v0.0.0-20230524154621-4316413895ee/platform/platform_windows.go:168:29: undefined: SERVER_INFO_101
../../../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/!data!dog/gohai@v0.0.0-20230524154621-4316413895ee/platform/platform_windows.go:185:9: undefined: platGetServerInfo
# github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/pkg/util/winutil
../../../../go/pkg/mod/github.com/!data!dog/datadog-agent/pkg/util/winutil@v0.66.0-devel.0.20250407180930-ebfcfa2817ce/winmem.go:126:15: undefined: performanceInformation
# github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/pkg/winperfcounters/internal/third_party/telegraf/win_perf_counters
../../pkg/winperfcounters/internal/third_party/telegraf/win_perf_counters/pdh.go:347:89: undefined: PDH_FMT_COUNTERVALUE_DOUBLE
../../pkg/winperfcounters/internal/third_party/telegraf/win_perf_counters/pdh.go:515:77: undefined: PDH_RAW_COUNTER
../../pkg/winperfcounters/internal/third_party/telegraf/win_perf_counters/performance_query.go:127:12: undefined: PDH_COUNTER_INFO
../../pkg/winperfcounters/internal/third_party/telegraf/win_perf_counters/performance_query.go:137:12: undefined: PDH_FMT_COUNTERVALUE_DOUBLE
../../pkg/winperfcounters/internal/third_party/telegraf/win_perf_counters/performance_query.go:160:28: undefined: PDH_FMT_COUNTERVALUE_ITEM_DOUBLE
../../pkg/winperfcounters/internal/third_party/telegraf/win_perf_counters/performance_query.go:176:15: undefined: PDH_RAW_COUNTER
../../pkg/winperfcounters/internal/third_party/telegraf/win_perf_counters/performance_query.go:199:28: undefined: PDH_RAW_COUNTER_ITEM

Expected Result

Successful Windows ARM64 build.

Actual Result

Posted in repro steps.

Collector version

main

Environment information

Environment

OS: Appears unimportant; this leverages Go cross-compile features.
Compiler(if manually compiled): go1.24.3

OpenTelemetry Collector configuration

N/A

Log output

Posted in repro steps.

Additional context

No response

[braydonk]

I went back as far as v0.123.0 and also tried with go1.23.9 and this is still happening. I swear this has worked for me before 🤔

[mx-psi]

If you are up for being an owner of this platform we can add it as Tier 3 supported platform and add some cross compilation tests to core and contrib to make sure it is buildable

[VihasMakwana]

cc: @pjanotti

As you're the windows expert 😎, any idea why this might be happening?

[braydonk]

I didn't realize this wasn't an already supported platform; I thought it used to work so opened the issue when I saw it wasn't working. But if it's not even a supported platform then this is fine.

I'll leave this open as a general Windows ARM64 build issue. I don't think I have any particular requirement for it any time soon so I'm not willing to commit to any ownership at this time, but if that changes I might be able to. I'll leave this open for now either way.

[pjanotti]

Eventually we'll need to get Windows ARM64 build support, but, I didn't start to look at it yet - the demand has been tiny AFAIK.

[pjanotti]

@braydonk I was able to run the command from the top of the issue on a mac ARM64 without issues:

> GOWORK=off GOOS=windows GOARCH=arm64 make genotelcontribcol
cd /Users/pjanotti/src/otel/collector/contrib/internal/tools && GOOS="" GOARCH="" go build -o /Users/pjanotti/src/otel/collector/contrib/.tools/builder -trimpath go.opentelemetry.io/collector/cmd/builder
go: downloading go.opentelemetry.io/collector/cmd/builder v0.127.0
go: downloading github.com/knadh/koanf/v2 v2.2.0
go: downloading github.com/knadh/koanf/parsers/yaml v1.0.0
go: downloading github.com/knadh/koanf/providers/env v1.1.0
go: downloading github.com/knadh/koanf/providers/file v1.2.0
go: downloading github.com/knadh/koanf/providers/fs v1.0.0
go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.33.0
./internal/buildscripts/ocb-add-replaces.sh otelcontribcol
Wrote replace statements to cmd/otelcontribcol/builder-config-replaced.yaml
/Users/pjanotti/src/otel/collector/contrib/.tools/builder --skip-compilation --config cmd/otelcontribcol/builder-config-replaced.yaml
2025-05-27T09:08:44.818-0700	INFO	internal/command.go:99	OpenTelemetry Collector Builder	{"version": "v0.127.0"}
2025-05-27T09:08:44.819-0700	INFO	internal/command.go:104	Using config file	{"path": "cmd/otelcontribcol/builder-config-replaced.yaml"}
2025-05-27T09:08:44.824-0700	INFO	builder/config.go:160	Using go	{"go-executable": "/opt/homebrew/bin/go"}
2025-05-27T09:08:44.865-0700	INFO	builder/main.go:99	Sources created	{"path": "./cmd/otelcontribcol"}
2025-05-27T09:09:50.955-0700	INFO	builder/main.go:201	Getting go modules
2025-05-27T09:09:58.411-0700	INFO	builder/main.go:106	Generating source codes only, the distribution will not be compiled.
> go version
go version go1.24.2 darwin/arm64

I will try on Windows and Linux x86_x64 later.

[braydonk]

@pjanotti I think that is missing the actual build step; make genotelcontribcol generates the sources, but the failure happens on build.

[pjanotti]

@braydonk ah thanks, missed that.

[pjanotti]

fyi - Windows ARM64 runners are available https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/windows-arm64-runners-git-hub-actions