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.
Build from source is for developers.