What is the Flutter Console?

flutter_console.bat is located in the root of your Flutter folder and not in the sub-folder called bin, e.g. ..\flutter\flutter_console.bat and ..\flutter\bin\flutter.bat are the files you have mistaken. You checked the bin folder. Here is a screenshot of the Flutter Console.

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The image should explain what it does, it allows you to access flutter commands, which are calling the flutter.bat. That is the reason why you cannot interact with the latter when double-clicking it because you are not sending any parameters and it is not configured as a console window, i.e. it does not pause and wait for more input.

The Flutter Console just lets you execute commands in the right directory if you have not added it to PATH because if you have ..\flutter\bin\ in PATH you can access the flutter commands from anywhere.


The Flutter Console is a specific terminal window shipped with the Flutter installation bundle for windows.

It is installed when the bundle .zip is extracted.

As the installation page says, you can locate the file flutter_console.bat inside the flutter directory and you can start it by double-clicking.

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