Running cardano-node on Windows 10

Developers Misc Dev Talk
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I’m running a perfect working cardano-node with Ubuntu on VirtualBox which eats a lot of memory and CPU so i wanted to try a native cardano-node on Windows 10.

I’m able to run it via command line using cardano-node run but I’m not sure how to do stuff like cardano-cli query utxo --mainnet --address xxxxx which i can easily do with my VM. I get this error when i run it:

Command failed: query utxo Error: Error while looking up environment variable: CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH Error: "CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH"

So how do you set the --socket-path in Windows? Is there any Windows tutorial online?

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you will need to export the socket path, but I don’t know how it’s working on windows…

export CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH=/home/user/cardano/db/socket (replace /home/user/cardano/db/socket with your path for socket)

after that login again or type source ~/.bashrc to reload the changes

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I know how to do it in Linux but I don’t know how to do it in Windows.

4

try this, I don’t know if it will work but you can try it

https://www.architectryan.com/2018/03/17/add-to-the-path-on-windows-10/

5

Yeah already tried but it’s not working. It might be with the way the node.socket is implemented on Windows. I just don’t know how to do that. I cannot find any info about it.

6

buth, the node is running? is synced? the socket is created?

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It seems that the node uses the WinAPI function CreateNamedPipe, which requires the name to have the format \\.\pipe\PIPENAME

See: CreateNamedPipeA function (winbase.h) - Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn

I can start a node with this command in Git Bash on Windows 10:

./cardano-node.exe run --topology testnet-config/testnet-topology.json --config testnet-config/testnet-config.json --database-path db --socket-path ‘\\.\pipe\node.socket’ --port 3001

I can then also run cardano-cli in Git Bash:

$ CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH=‘\\.\pipe\node.socket’ ./cardano-cli get-tip --testnet-magic 1097911063
{
“hash”: “3f9b91d4c29249e84d46064d50f0638b6927ebb192b8f57d53beee7d0e640f33”,
“slot”: 53137099,
“block”: 3401750
}

I hope this helps,
Marius