Cygwin compiles iperf for windows

Tutorial

The latest iperf is only 3.1.3 from iperf pre-compiled binaries web site up till the present moment (2022/09/15)

But iperf github repository already has 3.11 version (2022/09/15)

So we could use Cygwin to compile latest iperf by ourself

Install Cygwin

Cygwin is a cross-compile tool which could port some useful commands from Linux to Windows platform

Refer to Cygwin to install setup-x86_64.exe

Install Cygwin packages

Choose “gcc”, “make” … etc related packages

Fetch iperf source code

Takes 3.11 version as example, download source code from 3.11 release

Unzip it in “D:/iperf-3.11_source_code” folder as example

Conpile

Double Click “Cygwin64 Terminal”

cd /cygdrive/d/iperf-3.11_source_code
./configure CFLAGS=-static CXXFLAGS=-static --prefix=/usr/local/iperf3.11
make

Maybe there is libtool: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in x86_64-unknown-cygwin shared libraries; building static only message showed during compiling, but it didn’t make any side effect in this case.

After compile code successfully, then copy below files into same folder :

Copy iperf3.exe from D:\iperf-3.11_source_code\src
Copy cygwin1.dll from C:\cygwin64\bin

Finally, iperf3.exe could run successfully.