It was always quite a pain to get IRI running in Windows. This is a shame, since lots of people are using Windows. With this simple guide it should be easy for everyone to run an IOTA IRI node.
IRI and snappy compression
If you try to download the current IRI release and run it on Windows you’ll encounter some problems.
You can try to sync from scratch, but this way it’s practically impossible to get synced. Another option is to use an existing snapshot database to kickstart your node. If you download an available database (from e.g. IOTA.partners or IRI playbook) it’s impossible to use them on Windows because of compression errors.
Patched IRI for W64
The problem is the used underlying database RocksDB. To workaround this, I made a custom IRI build with a correct version of RocksDB (customized 5.18.3 and Windows snappy support). With this version you can download a spent-addresses DB created on Linux and use it on a Windows machine. Since I don’t know if it’s possible to merge these changes in official IRI (custom RocksDB build), I’ll provide it here:
Download: iri-1.6.1-RELEASE-W64.jar
(SHA256 03676F4969A08AB39418C6355B3A1CD8EDDBFF1E1ADA0B33DEE6C4DE47575429)
(MD5 4C5EDBCB6FC2D29D58DC816EAF320074)
Setting up a node in W10
If you’re interested in an example of setting up an IRI node in Windows 10, please read further.
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