Firebase CLI for Firestore Emulator is not launching on Windows

Question

I am following this article to launch Firestore emulator on my local Windows 10 box. After downloading the firebase-tools-instant-win.exe and tried various commands with no difference

firebase-tools-instant-win.exe firebase init
firebase-tools-instant-win.exe firebase login

I see no action on my shell, no message being reported and prompt returns simply back. Any idea what I am missing here.

Answer 1

The issue is due to Windows security and github.com/firebase/firebase-tools/issues/1796 has more details.

In the mean time can also use npm approach to run the firebase emulator

npm install -g firebase-tools