How to install Flutter on Windows 10 and Setup Flutter Windows Desktop

Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded devices from a single codebase. This guide will show us how to correctly set up our Windows PC so that we may run a Windows desktop application.

1. Install Git for Windows

2. Install Flutter via Git with dynamic version. Open Windows Powershell and type:

git clone https://github.com/flutter/flutter.git -b stable

3. Adding the System Environment Variables and Flutter Doctor.

4. Install Android Studio

5. Configure Flutter Windows Desktop. Open Windows Powershell and type:

flutter

Switch to flutter channel ‘master’:

flutter channel master

upgrade:

flutter config

Currently, there are no configurations set. At the command line, perform the following command to enable Win32 desktop support:

flutter config --enable-windows-desktop

If we run flutter config once more, we should see this:

After that, execute flutter doctor once more to download all necessary packages. As you can see, we encounter multiple issues:

1st issue: cmdline-tools components is missing

2nd issue: Android license status unknown

In Windows powershell, run:

flutter doctor --android-licenses

and then accept all licenses.

3rd issue: Visual Studio – develop for Windows

6. Run flutter doctor one last time to check if there are still issues.