Installer not Working Windows

[mathstar13]

When I run the installer for Grain, I see nothing but a console window flash open and closed in less than a second. As far as I can tell, nothing has installed as I ran grain --version in command prompt and I got 'grain' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file..

I am on Windows 11, x64.

[ospencer]

Hey @mathstar13, the binary download is not an installer—it is the compiler as an executable. You can put the binary on your PATH which will make the compiler available as grain-win-x64 unless you rename it to grain.exe. You can also invoke it without putting it on your PATH by invoking it as ./grain-win-x64.

[mathstar13]

@ospencer Thank you very much. After seeing your response I went back to the docs and saw the line "The Grain toolchain (including our CLI, compiler, runtime, and standard library) is shipped as a single binary." I completely skimmed over that when I read it. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

[ospencer]

No problem!