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Installing on Windows
There are two ways to install, build and use Proxmark3 on Windows:
- Using Gator96100 ProxSpace, a package to assist in your Windows installation of MinGW
- Using native WSL, if you're running a Windows 10 version recent enough (FCU 1709 or later)
Installing on Windows with ProxSpace
Video Installation guide
Driver Installation
Install required drivers for your Windows installation. You may need admin privileges to do this.
Step by step guides are online such as RiscCorps.
Download / clone ProxSpace repo
Download the Gator96100 ProxSpace package from https://github.com/Gator96100/ProxSpace/
If you prefer, you can clone it, provided that you installed Github for Windows https://desktop.github.com/.
Extract 'ProxSpace' to a location path without spaces.
For example D:\OneDrive\Documents\GitHub is ok whereas C:\My Documents\My Projects\proxspace is not.
If you're running Windows in a Virtualbox guest, make sure not to install ProxSpace on a vbox shared drive. (It's ok later to move the /pm3 subfolder to a shared drive and edit the *.bat)
Launch ProxSpace
Run runme.bat or runme64.bat depending on your Windows architecture.
You'll get a Bash prompt and your home directory should become the ProxSpace pm3 sub-directory.
Please note you will need to use / in paths as you are using Bash.
Clone the RRG/Iceman repository
cd
git clone https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3.git
cd proxmark3
If you're a contributing developer, you probably want to be able to use make style. If so, you've to install astyle:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-astyle
Compile and use the project
Now you're ready to follow the compilation instructions.
To use the compiled client and flasher, the only differences are that executables end with .exe (e.g. client/flasher.exe) and that the Proxmark3 port is one of your comX ports where "X" is the com port number assigned to proxmark3 under Windows.
To flash: In principle, the helper script flash-all.sh should auto-detect your COM port, so you can just try:
./flash-all.sh
If COM port detection failed, you'll have to call the flasher manually and specify the correct port:
client/flasher.exe comX -b bootrom/obj/bootrom.elf armsrc/obj/fullimage.elf
Similarly, to run the client, you may try:
./proxmark3.sh
Or, by specifying the COM port manually:
client/proxmark3.exe comX
Installing on Windows with WSL
It requires to run a Windows 10 version 1709 or above. Previous versions didn't have support for COM ports.
Install WSL with e.g. the standard Ubuntu.
For WSL configuration, see Manage and configure Windows Subsystem for Linux.
X Server Installation
If you want to run the graphical components of the Proxmark3 client, you need to install a X Server such as VcXsrv or Xming and launch it, e.g. by executing XLaunch.
Dependencies
Enter WSL prompt (wsl) and from there, follow the Linux Installation Instructions for Ubuntu, summarized here below:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install p7zip git ca-certificates build-essential libreadline5 libreadline-dev libusb-0.1-4 \
libusb-dev perl pkg-config wget gcc-arm-none-eabi libstdc++-arm-none-eabi-newlib \
libqt4-dev
If you don't need the graphical components of the Proxmark3 client, you can skip the installation of libqt4-dev.
Clone the RRG/Iceman repository
git clone https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3.git
Compile and use the project
Now you're ready to follow the compilation instructions.
To use the compiled client and flasher, the only difference is that the Proxmark3 port is translated from your comX port where "X" is the com port number assigned to proxmark3 under Windows, to a /dev/ttySX.
Depending on the Windows version, you might need to give permission to the current user to access /dev/ttySX: (change X to your port number)
ls -al /dev/ttySX
groups|grep dialout
If group ownership is dialout and your user is member of dialout group, all is fine. Else you'll have to provide access to /dev/ttySX: (Unfortunately the access rights of the port won't survive and will have to be fixed again next time.)
sudo chmod 666 /dev/ttySX
If you installed a X Server and compiled the Proxmark3 with QT4 support, you've to export the DISPLAY environment variable:
export DISPLAY=:0
and add it to your Bash profile for the next times:
echo "export DISPLAY=:0" >> ~/.bashrc
To flash: In principle, the helper script flash-all.sh should auto-detect your COMX==/dev/ttySX port, so you can just try:
./flash-all.sh
If port detection failed, you'll have to call the flasher manually and specify the correct port:
client/flasher /dev/ttySX -b bootrom/obj/bootrom.elf armsrc/obj/fullimage.elf
Similarly, to run the client, you may try:
./proxmark3.sh
Or, by specifying the COM port manually:
client/proxmark3 /dev/ttySX
Note that it may take a quite long time for a freshly plugged Proxmark3 to be visible on a WSL /dev/ttySX port.