AppFlowy/doc/BUILD_ON_WINDOWS.md

How to build on Windows, please follow these simple steps.

Step 1: Get source code

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git clone https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/appflowy.git

Step 2: Build app_flowy (Flutter GUI application)

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Note:

• Please run the commands in windows cmd rather than powershell
• Following steps are verified on
  • Windows 10 X86_64
  • Windows 10 arm64
  • Windows 11 X86_64
  • Windows 11 arm64

Detail steps

1. Install Visual Studio 2019 community. See: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
   • Note: Didn't test Visual Studio 2022. It should also work.
2. Install choco according to https://chocolatey.org/install
3. Install vcpkg according to https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg#quick-start-windows. Make sure to add vcpkg installation folder to PATH env var.

4. Install flutter according to https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install/windows

   flutter channel dev
   

   1. Install rust shell choco install rustup.install rustup toolchain install nightly

5. Install cargo make

   cd appflowy/frontend
   cargo install --force cargo-make
   

   1. Install duckscript shell cargo install --force duckscript_cli

6. Check pre-request

   cargo make flowy_dev
   

   1. Generate protobuf for dart (optional, if you modify the shared-lib's entities) shell cargo make -p development-windows pb

7. Build flowy-sdk (dart-ffi)

   # for development
   cargo make --profile development-windows-x86 flowy-sdk-dev
   # for production
   cargo make --profile production-windows-x86 flowy-sdk-release
   

   1. Build app_flowy

      # for development
      cargo make -p development-windows-x86 appflowy-windows-dev
      # for production
      cargo make -p production-windows-x86 appflowy-windows
      

Step 3: Build Server side application (optional if you don't need to host web service locally)

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Note: You can launch postgresql server by using docker container

TBD