Get CKB Binary on Windows (experimental)

Please note that Support for Windows is experimental. CKB is known to have serious performance issues when running in Windows. All commands listed below should be used through PowerShell.

Build from Source

Setup the Build Environment

Install Visual Studio 2019

Install Visual Studio 2019 with the workload: "Desktop development with C++".

minimum requirements: You can just select two individual components: "MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools (vXX.XX)" and "Windows 10 SDK (10.0.X.0)".

Install Tools with Scoop

  • Install Scoop.

  • Install git, llvm, yasm and rustup via Scoop.

    scoop install git
scoop install llvm
scoop install yasm
scoop install rustup

  • Install dependencies.

    • Add "extras" bucket for Scoop.

      scoop bucket add extras

    • yasm requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 runtime Libraries.

      scoop install vcredist2010

  • Configure Rust.

    rustup set default-host x86_64-pc-windows-msvc

Build CKB on Windows 10

  • Checkout the source code of CKB.

    git clone https://github.com/nervosnetwork/ckb
cd ckb

  • Build CKB.

    devtools/windows/make prod

Download from Releases

We publish binaries for each release via Github Releases. You can download the package directly.The Windows packages are for experiments only and have significant performance issues, we don't recommend to use them in production environment.They requires The Visual C++ Redistributable Packages, which can be downloaded under section Other Tools and Frameworks here or here.

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