How can I launch GoAccess in Windows?

Question

I saw here that GoAccess can be installed on Windows. I would like to use it with ISS 8.5 log files but I cannot find any tutorial about how this can be used in Windows through Cygwin.

Any help?

Answer 1

You need to install Cygwin. There are a lot of tutorials out there on how to do that.

Then you will need to install in cygwin at least the following packages:

wget
libGeoIP-devel
libncurses-devel
libncursesw10
gcc-core
make
automake
gettext

Then compile GoAccess as indicated in the download page.

$ wget http://tar.goaccess.io/goaccess-1.1.1.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf goaccess-1.1.1.tar.gz
$ cd goaccess-1.1.1/
$ ./configure --enable-geoip --enable-utf8
$ make
# make install

Answer 2

You may give our free CowAxess a try:

CowAxess is a GoAccess implementation for Windows systems. It is a packaging of GoAccess, Cygwin and many other related tools to make it a complete and ready-to-use solution for real-time web log analysis, all in a 4 MB package. We have followed standard instructions available at the GoAccess website.

CowAxess is available as a free solution licensed under simplified BSD. Enjoy!

NB! We are the developer of the solution.

Answer 3

Just wanted to add my 2 cents, that Windows now ships with an Ubuntu subsystem: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

Cygwin is not needed in 2018