- Windows Installation instructions
- Installing pre-compiled binaries with ProxSpace
- Installing dev-environment with WSL 1
There are three ways to install, build and use Proxmark3 on Windows:
- Using Gator96100 ProxSpace, a package to assist in your Windows installation of MinGW
- Using native WSL 1, if you're running a Windows 10 version recent enough (FCU 1709 or later)
- Using native WSL 2, if you're running Windows 11 (Build 22000 or later), and has its own readme.
We have listed three ways to use these two setups (dev environment vs pre-compiled binaries)
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note: this video is out-of-date but still informative
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note: for Windows 7 you will need this step. On a later Windows edition skip this.
Install required drivers for your Windows installation. You may need admin privileges to do this.
Step by step guides are online such as RyscCorps.
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Download the Gator96100 ProxSpace package from https://github.com/Gator96100/ProxSpace/releases
Extract 'ProxSpace' to a location path without spaces.
Good example
D:\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub
Bad example
C:\My Documents\My Projects\proxspace
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If you're running Windows in a Virtualbox guest, make sure not to install ProxSpace on a vbox shared drive. (It's ok later to move the /pm3 subfolder to a shared drive and edit the *.bat)
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Run runme64.bat.
You'll get a Bash prompt and your home directory should become the ProxSpace pm3 sub-directory.
Please note you will need to use / in paths as you are using Bash.
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cd
git clone https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3.git
cd proxmark3If you're a contributing developer, you probably want to be able to use make style. If so, you've got to install astyle:
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To use the compiled client, the only differences are that executables end with .exe (e.g. proxmark3.exe) and that the Proxmark3 port is one of your comX ports where "X" is the com port number assigned to proxmark3 under Windows, so commands like proxmark3 /dev/ttyACMX become proxmark3.exe comX.
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Now you're ready to follow the compilation instructions.
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There are a community effort by @gator96100 to make up-to-date precompiled version of the official repository and this repository. www.proxmarkbuilds.org
It has excellent instructions to follow.
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WSL 1 requires to run on Windows 10 version 1709 or above. Previous windows versions didn't have support for COM ports.
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Install WSL 1 with e.g. the standard Ubuntu. You can follow the guide on Microsoft Docs but be careful to follow WSL 1 specific instructions! When they recommend you to restart, you must restart.
For WSL 1 configuration, see Manage and configure Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Make sure your WSL 1 can launch Windows processes to get the pm3 scripts working (cf interop in the WSL settings).
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If you want to run the graphical components of the Proxmark3 client, you need to install a X Server such as in the list below, and launch it, e.g. by executing XLaunch.
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Microsoft has recently released a new terminal for their OS. It is much better experience than old cmd.exe so we strongly recommend installing it.
It is also open sourced (see github.com/microsoft/terminal). You can download and install from GitHub or Microsoft Store.
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Enter WSL prompt (wsl or Start Windows Terminal with wt) and from there, follow the Linux Installation Instructions for Ubuntu, summarized here below:
Make sure your WSL guest OS is up-to-date first:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get auto-remove -yInstall dependencies:
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends git ca-certificates build-essential pkg-config \
libreadline-dev gcc-arm-none-eabi libnewlib-dev \
libbz2-dev liblz4-dev libpython3-dev qtbase5-dev libssl-dev libgd-devNote
- If you don't need the graphical components of the
Proxmark3 client, you can skip the installation of
qtbase5-dev. - If you don't need support for Python3 scripts in the
Proxmark3 client, you can skip the installation of
libpython3-dev. - If you don't need support for NFC ePaper devices in the
PM3 device, you can skip the installation of
libgd-dev.
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git clone https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3.git^Top
To use the compiled client, the only difference is that the Proxmark3 port is translated from your comX port where "X" is the com port number assigned to proxmark3 under Windows, to a /dev/ttySX, so commands become:
proxmark3 /dev/ttyACM0 => proxmark3 /dev/ttySXDepending on the Windows version, you might need to give permission to the current user to access /dev/ttySX: (change X to your port number)
ls -al /dev/ttySX
groups|grep dialoutIf group ownership is dialout and your user is member of dialout group, all is fine. Else you'll have to provide access to /dev/ttySX: (Unfortunately the access rights of the port won't survive and will have to be fixed again next time.)
sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttySXIf you installed an X Server and compiled the Proxmark3 with QT5 support, you've to export the DISPLAY environment variable:
export DISPLAY=:0And add it to your Bash (or your preferred shell) profile for the next times:
echo "export DISPLAY=:0" >> ~/.bashrcNote that it may take a quite long time for a freshly plugged Proxmark3 to be visible on a WSL /dev/ttySX port.
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Now you're ready to follow the compilation instructions.