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Adam Schmideg edited this page Nov 7, 2019 · 29 revisions

The current best source of documentation for Geth is geth.ethereum.org/docs. This Wiki is not actively maintained, serves as an archive only, and we will soon remove it.

Binaries

Download stable binaries

All versions of Geth are built and available for download at https://geth.ethereum.org/downloads/.

The download page provides an installer as well as a zip file. The installer puts geth into your PATH automatically. The zip file contains the command .exe files and can be used without installing.

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

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.

Please ensure that the installed Go version is 1.7 (or any later version).

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

OBS If, during the commands below, you get the following message:

 WARNING: The data being saved is truncated to 1024 characters.

Then that means that the setx command will fail, and proceeding will truncate the Path/GOPATH. If this happens, it's better to abort, and try to make some more room in Path before trying again.

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> 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
C:\Users\xxx> go get -u -v golang.org/x/net/context

Finally, the command to compile geth is:

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