# steveloughran/winutils

Windows binaries for Hadoop versions (built from the git commit ID used for the ASF relase)

Repository: https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/winutils
Language: Shell
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-09-29T07:59:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4006, "days_push": 1069, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2639, forks 3021 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:06.399923+00:00)

## What it is
Windows native binaries (winutils.exe and Hadoop DLLs) for various Hadoop versions, built from the same git commits as official ASF releases. It lets Hadoop, Spark, and similar big-data tools run on Windows machines that would otherwise fail without these native libraries.

## Use cases
- run spark locally on windows
- fix hadoop native library error on windows
- download winutils.exe for hadoop
- set up hadoop on windows without wsl
- run hive or hdfs client tools on a windows dev machine

## When to choose
- you need to run Hadoop, Spark, or Hive locally on Windows and hit missing winutils.exe/HADOOP_HOME errors
- you want binaries matching official ASF Hadoop release commits with GPG-signed artifacts

## When to avoid
- you are on Linux or macOS, where these binaries are unnecessary
- you need current Hadoop version binaries - the maintainer points to cdarlint/winutils for up-to-date artifacts
- you only need local file:// access and can use a pure-Java replacement filesystem like hadoop-bare-naked-local-fs

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools, build-tool
- domain: big-data, developer-tools, windows
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: hadoop, winutils, native-binaries, spark, big-data-on-windows

## Member repositories
- steveloughran/winutils (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.399923+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:19:10.009876+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.399923+00:00, sha d2e80d40a7ac)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.