Installing on Windows

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Tested on Windows 10 and Windows 11

This page contains instructions for installing the Zond node on Windows.

Downloading binaries

The Zond node & PoS validator are available as pre-compiled binaries for some operating systems. The latest releases can be seen and downloaded from the go-zond releases page and qrysm releases page on GitHub.

Building from Source

Dependencies

The Zond node requires the following dependencies to be installed:

• Git for Windows
• Golang for Windows v1.21 or later
• A GCC compiler*: choco install mingw if using the Chocolatey package manager, TDM-GCC or see MinGW-w64 for more options.

*This dependency to be removed in the future.

The following commands should be entered separately, line-by-line, in Windows Command Prompt (i.e. cmd.exe)

Clone the Zond repositories

git clone https://github.com/theQRL/go-zond.git
git clone https://github.com/theQRL/qrysm.git

Build go-zond (the Execution Engine) with Golang v1.21 or later

cd go-zond
go build .\cmd\gzond
copy gzond.exe ..\
cd ..

Ensure Golang v1.20 is available to build the Consensus Engine

go install golang.org/dl/go1.20@latest
go1.20 download

Build qrsym (Consensus Engine) with Golang v1.20

cd qrysm
go1.20 build -o ../qrysmctl.exe ./cmd/qrysmctl
go1.20 build -o ../beacon-chain.exe ./cmd/beacon-chain
go1.20 build -o ../validator.exe ./cmd/validator