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.
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.