How to run a MWC Node (Windows)

This page is intended to provide basic instructions on how to get started running a MWC node.

Prerequisites

• Tested on Windows 10
• Relatively recent hardware

Downloading the Software

The latest MWC Node release can be found on the project Release Page.

Installation

Windows 10

Download the zipped binary to your machine, and unzip it into a folder. This will unzip a single file called mwc.exe, which contains the server software.

For now, we'd recommend placing this somewhere relative in your C:\ folder. For this tutorial we assume you download and unzip the files into C:\mwc\node\

Open C:\mwc\node\

Simply open the Folder containing mwc.exe and doubleclick it to start the Node.

This will create a mwc-server.toml file in c:\users%username%.mwc\main. The mwc.exe executable will always use this mwc-server.toml file if none other is specified via Commandline.

And that is it! The MWC TUI (Text-User-Interface) should appear and your node should automatically sync up with the blockchain.

Further Help and Information

In order to Interact with the MWC-Node we need to open the Windows command-line. Once opened we need to change directory into where we did unzipped the files, in our example:

cd c:\mwc\node\

You can view further details on the various commmand-line options available from mwc using the help command:

mwc.exe help
mwc.exe client help
mwc.exe server help