# Will there be OSX and Windows clients/miners at launch?

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/will-there-be-osx-and-windows-clients-miners-at-launch/2218>\
**Category:** Mining Support\
**Created:** [October 6, 2016, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/will-there-be-osx-and-windows-clients-miners-at-launch/2218 "2016-10-06T08:26:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![lunokhod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@lunokhod](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/lunokhod)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/will-there-be-osx-and-windows-clients-miners-at-launch/2218/1 "2016-10-06T08:26:10Z")

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This is a very simple question for the developers concerning their policy of whether or not Zcash will/should be available for use to everyone at launch, or only the select few that successfuly compile the unix binaries.

**Will OSX and Windows builds be available when Zcash launches later this month?**

Though I have rarely had problems building bitcoin and other wallets from source, I have not been been able to succeed with Zcash.

Cheers,

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**Author:** ![abromide](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/abromide/32/731_2.png) [@abromide](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/abromide)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/will-there-be-osx-and-windows-clients-miners-at-launch/2218/2 "2016-10-06T08:34:29Z")

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> [@Zcashd and Windows 10](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcashd-and-windows-10/1719):
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> This is an unofficial and unsupported guide to running zcashd on windows 10. A few people have asked for this, caveat emptor! Install Windows 10 anniversary edition. Enable Bash for Windows: [How To Enable Ubuntu on Bash on Windows 10 Anniversary Update](http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/08/enable-bash-windows-10-anniversary-update) More technical info here: [Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10 Anniversary Update | Microsoft Learn](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/07/08/bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows-10-anniversary-update/) Follow the Zcash beta guide, to download, compile and install. There are issues with IPv6 sockets with WSL, so you must disable…

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**Author:** ![Shawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/shawn/32/187_2.png) [@Shawn](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Shawn)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/will-there-be-osx-and-windows-clients-miners-at-launch/2218/3 "2016-10-07T19:03:09Z")

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Short answer is No.

The developers are only officially supporting Linux for launch. But as abromide linked to and as other have posted in other threads there are individuals working on building Windows and OSX ports.

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**Author:** ![voxelot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/voxelot/32/571_2.png) [@voxelot](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/voxelot)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/will-there-be-osx-and-windows-clients-miners-at-launch/2218/4 "2016-10-07T19:35:52Z")

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There is nothing stopping our open source miner from running on windows and mac (i’m actually building it on mac). So when zcashd has builds for other platforms there will be miners.