Building Hadoop on Windows
Hadoop requires the following application :- 1) Ant (unzip and set PATH to point to this folder) 2) JDK (unzip and set PATH to point to this folder). I'm using JDK 1.6 Update 14 for this build. 3) Cygwin (svn + openssh) Download hadoop source code using svn from the following url: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/core/trunk Go to the folder that you've download and build by typing ant (Press enter) That's all.