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.
For 32-bit environment, download x86 executable binary from packages.groonga.org.
You can download such a binary by command line operation.
Start command prompt cmd.exe and download x86 executable binary by default browser:
> "c:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe" http://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-3.0.4-x86.exe
Then run it.
For 64-bit environment, download x64 executable binary from packages.groonga.org.
Start command prompt cmd.exe and download x64 executable binary by default browser:
> "c:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe" http://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-3.0.4-x64.exe
Then run it.
Use command prompt for groonga command installed in start menu.
For 32-bit environment, download x86 zip archive from packages.groonga.org.
You can download such a binary by command line operation.
Start command prompt cmd.exe and download x86 zip archive by default browser:
> "c:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe" http://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-3.0.4-x86.zip
Then extract it.
For 64-bit environment, download x64 zip archive from packages.groonga.org.
Start command prompt cmd.exe and download x64 zip archive by default browser:
> "c:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe" http://packages.groonga.org/windows/groonga/groonga-3.0.4-x64.zip
Then extract it.
groonga command is in bin folder.
First, you need to install required tools for building groonga on Windows. Here are required tools:
Download zipped source from packages.groonga.org.
You can download such a zipped source file by command line operation.
Start Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010) installed by Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express and download it by default browser:
> cd c:\Users\%USERNAME%\Downloads
> "c:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe" http://packages.groonga.org/source/groonga/groonga-3.0.4.zip
Then extract it.
Move to the groonga's source folder:
> cd c:\Users\%USERNAME%\Downloads\groonga-3.0.4
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-3.0.4> cmake . -G "Visual Studio 10 Win64" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\groonga
Build:
groonga-3.0.4> cmake --build . --config Release
Install:
groonga-3.0.4> cmake --build . --config Release --target Install
After the above steps, groonga command is found in c:\groonga\bin\groonga.exe.