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# Running Electrum from source on Windows (development version)
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## Prerequisites
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- [python3](https://www.python.org/)
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- [git](https://gitforwindows.org/)
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## Main steps
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### 1. Check out the code from GitHub:
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```
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> git clone https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum.git
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> cd electrum
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> git submodule update --init
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```
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Run install (this should install most dependencies):
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```
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> python3 -m pip install --user -e ".[gui,crypto]"
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```
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### 2. Install `libsecp256k1`
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[libsecp256k1](https://github.com/bitcoin-core/secp256k1) is a required dependency.
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This is a C library, which you need to compile yourself.
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Electrum needs a dll, named `libsecp256k1-0.dll`, placed into the inner `electrum/` folder.
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For Unix-like systems, the (`contrib/make_libsecp256k1.sh`) script does this for you,
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however it does not work on Windows.
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If you have access to a Linux machine (e.g. VM) or perhaps even using
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WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), you can cross-compile from there to Windows,
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and build this dll:
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```
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$ GCC_TRIPLET_HOST="x86_64-w64-mingw32" ./contrib/make_libsecp256k1.sh
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```
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Alternatively, MSYS2 and MinGW-w64 can be used directly on Windows, as follows.
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- download and install [MSYS2](https://www.msys2.org/)
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- run MSYS2
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- inside the MSYS2 shell:
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```
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$ pacman -Syu
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$ pacman -S --needed git base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-autotools
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$ export PATH="$PATH:/mingw64/bin"
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```
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`cd` into the git clone, e.g. `C:\wspace\electrum` (auto-mounted at `/c/wspace/electrum`)
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```
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$ cd /c/wspace/electrum
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$ GCC_TRIPLET_HOST="x86_64-w64-mingw32" ./contrib/make_libsecp256k1.sh
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```
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(note: this is a bit cumbersome, see [issue #5976](https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5976)
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for discussion)
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### 3. Run electrum:
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```
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> python3 ./run_electrum
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```
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