This guide shows you how to install Julia on Windows OS.

How to install Julia on Windows OS?

Please follow the below steps to set up and install Julia on Windows OS.

  • First, Go to here and select 64 or 32-bit based on your machine.
  • Download Julia-x.x.x-win64.exe into a local folder, where x.x.x is a current stable release
  • Click on exec file, install to the d:\julia folder
  • It installs the Julia folder by following the next steps.
  • While installation of Julia, You can select Add Julia to PATH, which adds to the environment variable
  • You can add environment variables in Windows
 PATH "%PATH%;d:\julia\bin"
  • Open the command prompt and type Julia here
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.21996.1]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\abc>julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.8.5 (2023-01-08)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia>

Julia is an REPL interactive session where you can run Julia programming code interactively.

Here is an example

julia> 3*3
9

julia> ans
9

Uninstall Julia on Windows

Please follow the below steps to uninstall Julia on Windows OS.

  • Select Control Panel
  • Select `Programs and Features and select or remove programs
  • Select Julia and right right-click on it, and select Uninstall
  • Follow the steps to uninstall from Windows