# 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 x86 executable binary from packages.groonga.org:

> - http://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-4.0.0-x86.exe

Then run it.

For 64-bit environment, download x64 executable binary from packages.goronga.org:

> - http://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-4.0.0-x64.exe

Then run it.

Use command prompt in start menu to run groonga command.

## 2.1.2. zip

For 32-bit environment, download x86 zip archive from packages.groonga.org:

> - http://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-4.0.0-x86.zip

Then extract it.

For 64-bit environment, download x64 zip archive from packages.groonga.org:

> - http://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-4.0.0-x64.zip

Then extract it.

You can find groonga command 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 from packages.groonga.org:

> - http://packages.groonga.org/source/groonga/groonga-4.0.0.zip

Then extract it.

Move to the Groonga's source folder:

    > cd c:\Users\%USERNAME%\Downloads\groonga-4.0.0

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-4.0.0> cmake . -G "Visual Studio 10 Win64" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\groonga

Build:

    groonga-4.0.0> cmake --build . --config Release

Install:

    groonga-4.0.0> cmake --build . --config Release --target Install

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