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:

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

Then extract it.

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

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

Then extract it.

You can find groonga executable file in bin folder.

2.1.2. Build from source

You can build Groonga from the source with CMake.

See How to build Groonga with CMake.