How to compile redis 5 for windows 10 using cygwin gcc.

This is for testing redis on windows 10 only. not for Production !!

use it on your own risk , your anti virus may detect it as a virus its not !

Motivation:

I was looking for redis windows build to test some redis c++ client and to my surprise i havent found one so quickly i complied one.

How to:

1. Download cygwin
2. Components to install which not install by default
   • gcc
   • readline
   • tcl (for redis tests)
   • make
3. Download latest stable redis (currently redis-5.0.7)
4. Open the file /redis-5.0.7/deps/hiredis/net.c and add on top of the file

    #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L

5. Compile the /redis-5.0.7/deps first

cd /redis-5.0.7/deps:
make hiredis linenoise lua 
cd /redis-5.0.7/
make

6. Execute redis-server inside cygwin shell

   cd /redis-5.0.7/src/
   ./redis-server.exe ../redis.conf

test basic conctivity on localhost

cd /redis-5.0.7/src/
$ ./redis-cli.exe -h localhost
localhost:6379> ping
PONG
localhost:6379>

deploy outside cygwin

All cygwin wrapper is inside : cygwin1.dll so we need it when we run our redis-server so deployment direcotry should look like this :

cygwin1.dll
redis.conf
redis-benchmark.exe
redis-check-aof.exe
redis-check-rdb.exe
redis-cli.exe
redis-sentinel.exe
redis-server.exe

troubleshooting:

some times on windows you will have networking problem to fix it try those configurations if you getting this error when you start pserver-cli.exe:

Could not connect to Redis at 127.0.0.1:6379: Name or service not known
Aborted (core dumped)

to fix it try :

1. stop redis
2. in redis.conf search for : bind 127.0.0.1 and comment it with #
3. start redis server , and start redis-cli.exe like this :

./redis-cli.exe -h localhost

if this dosn't help

1. stop redis server
2. in redis.conf search for : bind 127.0.0.1 change it to :

bind 0.0.0.0

3. start redis server , and start redis-cli.exe like this :

./redis-cli.exe -h localhost

or

./redis-cli.exe -h 0.0.0.0