# groonga - An open-source fulltext search engine and column store.

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# 2.1. Windows

This section describes how to install groonga on Windows. You can install groogna by extracting a zip package or running an installer.

We distribute both 32-bit and 64-bit packages but we strongly recommend a 64-bit package for server. You should use a 32-bit package just only for tests or development. You will encounter an out of memory error with a 32-bit package even if you just process medium size data.

## 2.1.1. Installer

For 32-bit environment, download groonga-2.0.5-x86.exe and run it.

For 64-bit environment, download groonga-2.0.5-x64.exe and run it.

Use command prompt for groonga command installed in start menu.

## 2.1.2. zip

For 32-bit environment, download groonga-2.0.5-x86.zip and extract it.

For 64-bit environment, download groonga-2.0.5-x64.zip and extract it.

groonga command is in `bin` folder.

## 2.1.3. Build from source

First, you need to install required tools for building groonga on Windows. Here are required tools:

> - Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express
> - CMake

Download zipped source groonga-2.0.5.zip and extract it.

Start `Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010)` installed by Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express and move to the groonga's source folder:

    > cd c:\Users\%USERNAME%\Downloads\groonga-2.0.5

Configure by `cmake`. The following commnad line is for 64-bit version. To build 32-bit version, use `-G "Visual Studio 10"` parameter instead:

    groonga-2.0.5> cmake . -G "Visual Studio 10 Win64" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\groonga

Build by Visual Studio:

    groonga-2.0.5> devenv groonga.sln /Build Release

Install:

    groonga-2.0.5> devenv groonga.sln /Build Release /Project Install

After the above steps, groonga command is found in `c:\groonga\bin\groonga.exe`.

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