How to Install Solidity in Windows?

To install solidity on windows ensure that you are using windows 10, as only windows 10 provides built-in Linux Subsystem. With the help of this feature, we can run the Ubuntu terminal on the Windows machine. Below are the steps to setup Solidity on windows:

Step 1: Open control panel on your system and toggle to Windows Subsystem for Linux under Control Panel>Programs>Programs and Features>Turn Windows features on or off.

Step 2: After your system restarts install “Ubuntu LTS 18.04” from Microsoft store and after installation set it up.

Step 3: After setting up Bash install and check necessary dependencies like cURL, Node version manager(NVM), NodeJS and Node Packet Manager(NPM) using the following commands:

1. Installing cURL :

   sudo apt-get install curl

   curl --version 

   

2. Installing NVM:

   curl -o-https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.0/install.sh | bash

   nvm --version

   

3. Installing NodeJS and NPM:

   nvm install node

   node --version

   npm --version

   

4. After installing the dependencies, install and check solidity compiler solc by using following code:

   npm install -g solc

   solcjs --version