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Felix Lange edited this page Apr 6, 2016 · 29 revisions

Binaries

Download stable binaries

All versions of Geth are built and available for download at https://build.ethdev.com/builds/Windows%20Go%20master%20branch/. The latest version is always available as Geth-Win64-latest.zip

  1. Download zip file
  2. Extract geth.exe from zip
  3. Open a command terminal
  4. chdir
  5. open geth.exe

Installing from Chocolatey

Note: Chocolatey is stuck at 1.2.2 and deprecated. Consider using another method

For master branch:

choco install geth-stable

For more information see https://chocolatey.org/packages/geth-stable

For develop branch:

choco install geth-latest

For more information see https://chocolatey.org/packages/geth-latest

Source

Compiling geth with tools from chocolatey

The Chocolatey package manager provides an easy way to get the required build tools installed. If you don't have chocolatey yet, follow the instructions on https://chocolatey.org to install it first.

Then open an Administrator command prompt and install the build tools we need:

C:\Windows\system32> choco install git
C:\Windows\system32> choco install golang
C:\Windows\system32> choco install mingw

Installing these packages will set up the Path environment variable. Open a new command prompt to get the new Path. The following steps don't need Administrator privileges.

First we'll create and set up a Go workspace directory layout, then clone the source.

C:\Users\xxx> set "GOPATH=%USERPROFILE%"
C:\Users\xxx> set "PATH=%USERPROFILE%\bin;%PATH%"
C:\Users\xxx> setx GOPATH "%GOPATH%"
C:\Users\xxx> setx PATH "%PATH%"
C:\Users\xxx> go get github.com/tools/godep
C:\Users\xxx> mkdir src\github.com\ethereum
C:\Users\xxx> git clone https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum src\github.com\ethereum\go-ethereum
C:\Users\xxx> cd src\github.com\ethereum\go-ethereum

Finally, the command to compile geth is:

C:\Users\xxx\src\github.com\ethereum\go-ethereum> godep go install -v ./...

Powershell script for building with Cygwin

This script installs Go, MSYS2 and the development version of geth.

https://gist.github.com/tgerring/79f018954aadfb3f406e

Compiling geth with tools from winbuilds

  1. Install Git from http://git-scm.com/downloads
  2. Install Golang from https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.4.2.windows-amd64.msi
  3. Install winbuilds from http://win-builds.org/1.5.0/win-builds-1.5.0.exe to c:\winbuilds
  4. Run win builds here. It's safe to remove big dependencies like QT and GTK which aren't needed. An exact list of dependencies should be determined
  5. Setup environment paths
  6. Add GOROOT pointed to c:\go and GOPATH to c:\godev (you are free to pick these paths).
  7. Set PATH to %PATH%;%GOROOT%\bin;%GOPATH%\bin;c:\winbuilds\bin
  8. Open a terminal and install godep first: go get -u github.com/tools/godep
  9. Open a terminal and download go-ethereum go get -d -u github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
  10. Try building ethereum with go dep, navigate to c:\godev\src\github.com\ethereum\go-ethereum\cmd\geth and run git checkout develop && godep go install

If you want to build from an other branch bypass godep go install for go install and checkout the dependencies manually.

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