Nightly builds for Windows

[deevus]

If you wanted to test Zed on Windows, I have created an automated nightly build here: https://github.com/deevus/zed-windows-builds

Quickest way to install it is via Scoop:

scoop bucket add versions
scoop install versions/zed-nightly

[mapsgeek]

Thanks

[Curious-r]

Great work bro!

[cdcb52]

Granted its not technically released stable for Windows. I am having an issue where I attempt to run it and nothing ever opens. No error messages are displayed. Anyone have any thoughts on the cause/solution?

[vikrant0017]

Yes I faced this issue. Turned out it was issue related with VulkanSDK . My laptop has a integrated AMD Graphics and discrete NVIDIA card. Turns out I didn't have AMD driver installed. Installing it fixed the issue for me.
This may not work for everyone, but you could give it a try.

[lhutyra]

I experienced exactly sam eproblem - nothing appear, nothign happend on click 'zed' - It was outdated integradted(iris) graphic card driver

[co-bby]

I experienced exactly sam eproblem - nothing appear, nothign happend on click 'zed' - It was outdated integradted(iris) graphic card driver

have you been able to resolve. I have the same issue

[cdcb52]

I experienced exactly sam eproblem - nothing appear, nothign happend on click 'zed' - It was outdated integradted(iris) graphic card driver

have you been able to resolve. I have the same issue

I updated my iris driver to the newest version on windows 10. Didn't modify the install of zed and it works now. Seemed like it was vulkan related. I had similar issues on my arch Linux install also. Updated vulkan driver and worked.

[Master-Y0da]

can be updated ?...I hit "check for updates" button in zed options, but no answer.

[deevus]

Probably not until there are official builds for Windows.

[cdcb52]

For how I installed I can not upgrade from the app but rather recompile with the latest bin

[deevus]

If you have installed using scoop, updates can be attained by running scoop update zed.

You can automate this using UniGetUI

[aus10d]

If you have installed using scoop, updates can be attained by running scoop update zed.

for me, to update it, i had to specify "zed-nightly"

[meetgovindbajaj]

i m trying to run it in win 11, using latest intel arc driver version, no external graphic card is there with i5 11gen, all drivers and software and win versions are latest, still not able to see the app running. i checked task manager and found that its open in background but not able to access or open it though.

[lhutyra]

@yodatak - I think it's not merged yet

[co-bby]

For me build before 1 october works and latest don't work

you can try the latest build here https://github.com/shenjackyuanjie/zed-win-build/releases/tag/0.156.0%2B85eceb7194-1.2.1

[lhutyra]

For me latest nightly works already. #18705 merged

[meetgovindbajaj]

yes its opening now

[aus10d]

after updating, mine now works too! very happy to try it on windows! thank you, @deevus, for making this for us!

[Nickeldon]

[lhutyra]

Why I cannot download latest version? For me last one is 7th November...

[codesbyayush]

builds after 7th november are failing for some reason so 7th november was the last successful release

[b1rigu]

OMG, thanks for this. It took me 4 hours to build on version on my laptop

[DeanLemans]

can you please fix the windows build?
there hasnt been an update to the releases for 2 weeks.

[luckzylp]

+1

[deevus]

Apologies for the delay. My email address is on my profile if I become unresponsive.

[Deku-nattsu]

for some reason when i build it myself it doesn't come with a lot of things such as project panel, and built in terminal

[Jimmy-Z]

Thank you!

And, is there plan to support tagged builds?

[deevus]

I don't personally need them, but if someone wanted to make a PR, I would consider it.

[max-programming]

Wow thanks a lot buddy!

[MElkmeshi]

it doesn't open for me

[MElkmeshi]

[ARyaskov]

@deevus Thank you very much for GH Actions workflow and Scoop release!
Sadly it (ver. 20250117) does not work for me today on Windows 10 with the latest Windows updates and 3 years old PC hardware with integrated Intel's GPU, latest VC++ redist and WebView2 (nor "zed-opengl.exe", nor "zed.exe", nor "scoop-version of zed" -- it just doesn't not appears in Task Manager, no windows, no error messages).
Hope I'll find a way to use it on Windows without building :)

[deevus]

Try installing vcredist2022 via scoop

[ARyaskov]

Thanks for advise @deevus ! But it still doesn't run as previously :(

[weebao]

Just wanna say thanks this is awesome. Does anyone have any tip on how to set up github copilot on this? I already signed in but nothing shows up for github copilot

[jloa]

Error: Cannot find module 'D:\C:\Users\julius\AppData\Local\Zed\extensions\work\vue\node_modules\@vue\language-server\bin\vue-language-server.js'

Why does nightly doesnt have the fix for this issue?
Also weird that zed doesnt respect the settings

 "lsp": {
    "vue": {
      "binary": {
        "path": "C:/@vue/language-server/bin/vue-language-server.js"
      },
    }
  }

[deevus]

The fix for that hasn't hit main yet. They aren't prioritising PRs for Windows at this time.

[jloa]

Anyway to change the path via config somehow?

[itpropro]

This also impacts basically every extension I am using, guess we just have to wait.

[pigletfly]

does this build support wsl ?

[pigletfly]

In what sense? I'm pretty sure it can open files that are in WSL.

open files from wsl directly, like vscode behaviors, just type code.

[deevus]

I'm not sure. You'd have to test it and report back.

[codeit-ninja]

Ofcourse it does not support WSL itself. But since WSL is, as its name says, a subsystem. Which means you can access its filesystem from its host. Its basically a VM. On windows it shows WSL folders under network.

[RenaudLN]

One can open files that are on WSL but what about getting access to the environments installed on WSL? All my dev stuff is setup on the Linux side with Python virtual environments etc. When opening things naively Zed still tries to use Windows for LSP etc.

[deevus]

I don't think that kind of workflow is properly supported yet.

[rzkyyds]

Tried it on windows 11 but the app doesn't show up when opened.

[deevus]

I've had this happen to me before. Try opening using the Start Menu shortcut.

[rzkyyds]

I'm trying but it's still not opening the App

[wanjohiryan]

Same here, Zed does not open on Windows 11

[cxinmayy]

I'm trying but it's still not opening the App

did you find any solution??

[rzkyyds]

still can't open until now, i guess i have to wait until there is a stable build from zed directly.

[kireerik]

Installer doesn't start on Windows ARM.

[deevus]

I'm not currently shipping ARM builds, as I have no way to test it.

If you're willing to make a PR to add an ARM build, I'd accept it.

[sudo-pacman-syu]

Hey, I am not able to update zed-nightly after the 2025_03_09 build

[deevus]

See here: deevus/zed-windows-builds#41

[mohamad-tohidi]

thank you very much

[weebao]

@deevus quick question is this automatically updated for every new zed update? thanks!

[deevus]

Yep. It updates daily. Stable releases are usually only a couple of times a week.

[fxrstor]

@deevus Starts and almost instantly exits in Windows 22H2 despite having vcredist2022 installed in the computer. Both stable and nightly builds don't work.

> Invoke-RestMethod -Uri https://get.scoop.sh | Invoke-Expression
Initializing...
Downloading...
Creating shim...
Adding ~\scoop\shims to your path.
Scoop was installed successfully!
Type 'scoop help' for instructions.
> scoop bucket add extras
Checking repo... OK
The extras bucket was added successfully.
> scoop install extras/zed
Installing 'zed' (0.181.5) [64bit] from 'extras' bucket
zed.zip (79.5 MB) [====================================================================================================================================================================================] 100%
Checking hash of zed.zip ... ok.
Extracting zed.zip ... done.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\zed\current => ~\scoop\apps\zed\0.181.5
Creating shim for 'zed'.
Making C:\Users\InsertUsername\scoop\shims\zed.exe a GUI binary.
Creating shortcut for Zed (zed.exe)
'zed' (0.181.5) was installed successfully!

> zed
> scoop install vcredist2022
Installing 'vcredist2022' (14.42.34438.0) [64bit] from 'extras' bucket
vc_redist.x64.exe (24.5 MB) [=================================================================================] 100%
Checking hash of vc_redist.x64.exe ... ok.
vc_redist.x86.exe (13.3 MB) [=================================================================================] 100%
Checking hash of vc_redist.x86.exe ... ok.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\vcredist2022\current => ~\scoop\apps\vcredist2022\14.42.34438.0
Running post_install script...WARN  This product is already installed
WARN  This product is already installed
done.
'vcredist2022' (14.42.34438.0) was installed successfully!
Notes
-----
You can now remove this installer with 'scoop uninstall vcredist2022'
> scoop install extras/zed-opengl
Installing 'zed-opengl' (0.181.5) [64bit] from 'extras' bucket
zed-opengl.zip (79.4 MB) [====================================================================================] 100%
Checking hash of zed-opengl.zip ... ok.
Extracting zed-opengl.zip ... done.
Linking ~\scoop\apps\zed-opengl\current => ~\scoop\apps\zed-opengl\0.181.5
Creating shim for 'zed'.
WARN  Overwriting shim ('zed.exe' -> 'zed-opengl.exe') installed from zed
Making C:\Users\InsertUsername\scoop\shims\zed.exe a GUI binary.
Creating shortcut for Zed (zed-opengl.exe)
'zed-opengl' (0.181.5) was installed successfully!

[deevus]

Try installing latest GPU drivers for your system.

[weebao]

Do you guys have a problem with changing models in the assistant model after opening the settings file once?

[patyhank]

Same here. After opening the settings file, any changes won’t be saved, even if I close the file tab.
Exiting the application and reopening Zed makes it work properly again.

[essenciary]

Used to work, it stopped working a few weeks ago. Updated multiple times, no dice. The app just doesn't start (I presume it crashes upon startup). Automatically installed and updated via Scoop.

OS: Windows 11
Build: 24H2 (26100)
Uptime: 0 days, 1 hour, 54 minutes
Resolution: 1920x1200 @60Hz
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS w/ Radeon 760M Graphics
GPU: AMD Radeon 760M Graphics
Memory: 15624 MB

[essenciary]

Crazy, but found this in the docs and fixed it.

If there's nothing Vulkan-related in the logs and you happen to have Bandicam installed, try uninstalling it. Zed is currently not compatible with Bandicam.

[jackytank]

thanks brother

[SameerJS6]

Unofficial Zed CLI for Windows

If anyone here is looking for a CLI on Windows, you can try this: Zed CLI for Windows (Unofficial). It’s written in Go, simple to use, and can also add an “Open with Zed” option to the context menu with just a single command.

You can download the CLI using either PowerShell scripts or Scoop—whichever method you prefer.

Powershell Script

Install CLI

Download and run the installation script for the Unofficial Zed CLI:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SameerJS6/zed-cli-win-unofficial/refs/heads/main/scripts/release/install-wrapper.ps1 | iex

Install Zed + CLI (All-in-One)

Install both Zed (Unofficial Build from @pirafrank) and the Unofficial CLI with zero setup. This script handles everything automatically:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SameerJS6/zed-cli-win-unofficial/refs/heads/main/scripts/release/install-with-zed-wrapper.ps1 | iex

Scoop

1. Add the bucket

scoop bucket add zed-cli-unofficial https://github.com/SameerJS6/zed-cli-win-unofficial

2. Install the CLI

scoop install zed-cli-unofficial/zed-cli-win-unofficial

Command for Installing "Open with Zed" Feature

zed context install

[Neuron-Mr-White]

Thank you, damn!!!