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Windows

This page details how to install Polkadot Live on Windows systems, either by downloading a pre-built installer or building the application directly from source.

Installer​

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We have deployed a Polkadot Live landing page that provides download links for macOS arm64 and Windows x64 installers.

Navigate to the Polkadot Live's latest release on GitHub and locate the .exe download link at the bottom of the page:

Click the release's .exe installer link to download it to your system. After downloading is completed, simply double-click the .exe file to install and launch Polkadot Live.

A new Polkadot Live icon will be displayed in the task bar tray. Click it to show and hide the main window:

You can close the application altogether by selecting Exit from the main window's cog menu.

Build From Source​

Follow the instructions below to build Polkadot Live from source on Windows.

Install dependencies​

  1. Download and install Git by following the instructions on the Git website download page.

  2. Download and install GitHub CLI by clicking the download button on its homepage.

  3. Download and install Node.js by following the instructions on the Node.js website download page.

  4. Open Windows Powershell and run the following commands to install Yarn globally and verify a successful install by checking its version output:

    npm install --global yarn
    yarn --version

Clone repository and build application​

Run the following commands in the Windows Powershell command line program.

  1. Navigate to an appropriate place on your disk and clone the Polkadot Live application repository.

    cd ~
    mkdir Polkadot
    cd Polkadot
    gh repo clone polkadot-live/polkadot-live-app

  2. Enter the project root directory.

    cd polkdadot-live-app

  3. Set yarn to version 4:

    yarn set version berry

  4. Install project dependencies

    yarn install

  5. Build and package the application.

    yarn package

  6. The application will be built within a directory called out\ under the project root. Open the out\Polkadot-Live-win32-x64 directory in File Explorer and double-click the Polkadot Live application to open it:

Double click on the Polkadot Live application to launch it. A new icon will be displayed in the task bar tray. Click it to show and hide the main window:

You can close the application altogether by selecting Exit from the main window's cog menu.