# 2.1. Windows

This section describes how to install Groonga on Windows. You can install Groonga by extracting a zip package.

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. zip

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

> - https://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-latest-x86-vs2019-with-vcruntime.zip

If we don’t need Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library, we download from the following URL:

> - https://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-latest-x86-vs2019.zip

Then extract it.

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

> - https://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-latest-x64-vs2019-with-vcruntime.zip

If we don’t need Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library, we download from the following URL:

> - https://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-latest-x64-vs2019.zip

Then extract it.

You can find groonga executable file in `bin` folder.

## 2.1.2. Build from source

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

> - Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop

> - CMake

Download zipped source from packages.groonga.org:

> - https://packages.groonga.org/source/groonga/groonga-12.0.4.zip

Then extract it.

Move to the Groonga’s source folder:

    > cd c:\Users\%USERNAME%\Downloads\groonga-12.0.4

Configure by `cmake`. The following commnad line is for 64-bit version. To build 32-bit version, use `-G "Visual Studio 12 2013"` parameter instead:

    groonga-12.0.4> cmake . -G "Visual Studio 12 2013 Win64" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\Groonga

Build:

    groonga-12.0.4> cmake --build . --config Release

Install:

    groonga-12.0.4> cmake --build . --config Release --target Install

After the above steps, groonga executable file is found at `c:\Groonga\bin\groonga.exe`.

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