Disclaimer: This is an unofficial repository and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Amazon Web Services (AWS). This project simply provides Windows builds of the official Amazon Q Developer CLI.
Note: There is no official Windows build of the Amazon Q Developer CLI. This unofficial build may be unstable or have bugs.
Security Note: The built binary is not code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may display a warning when you first run it. This is normal for unsigned executables.
Build Amazon Q Developer CLI for Windows.
Download the latest zip file from the Releases page. Extract the q.exe binary and update_q.bat script from the downloaded zip file.
To update to the latest version, run the included update_q.bat script. This will automatically:
- Download the latest release from GitHub
- Extract and replace your current
q.exebinary - Clean up temporary files
The script downloads files to your ~/Downloads folder during the update process.
This repository provides a GitHub workflow to automatically build the Amazon Q Developer CLI for Windows and create releases with the compiled binary.
The workflow:
- Clones the specified version from the aws/amazon-q-developer-cli repository
- Builds the binary using
cargo build --bin chat_cli --release - Renames the output from
chat_cli.exetoq.exe - Creates a zip archive with the version in the filename
- Creates a new release with the specified tag name
- Uploads the zip file to the release