Redis on Windows?

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Has anyone ported redis to Windows? 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by eprparad...@gmail.com on 6 May 2009 at 12:48

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It was reported to compile using Cygwin, but it will never get supported. Still 
the
Cygwin build appears to be viable at least for a first look.

Original comment by anti...@gmail.com on 6 May 2009 at 1:01

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Thanks. I expected as much. Is there some particular aspect of the code that 
would be
a problem porting to Windows?

Original comment by eprparad...@gmail.com on 6 May 2009 at 1:16

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Hi -- Has anyone compiled with mingw?  I started this weekend, and there are a 
lot of
errors from include files that I'd expect to work with most standard posix 
set-ups.

Is there a mailing list for redis?

Thanks, Will

Original comment by William....@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 12:06

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I actually got redis building and running with Visual Studio this weekend. Took 
a
couple hours.

I'm not sure if antirez has any interest in supporting this officially; he 
hasn't
responded to my emails yet. If he doesn't, maybe I'll just post the code and
executable somewhere, I guess, if anyone wants to mess with it.

Original comment by csbroo...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2009 at 2:08

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Hi csbrooks6,

Please do share your VS-port of redis! I do have a virtual box running Ubuntu, 
and
had been unable to make it accessible to "outside" of the host machine. And
Dreamhost's shared hosting wouldn't allow me to run it as a daemon, as it eats 
way
more memory than I pay for...

Thanks very much for your work! Keep it up!

Regards,
James

Original comment by james.j....@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2009 at 3:59

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Hello, I'm trying to consider the issue. Basically I want to know if there are 
real benefits 
in having a native port compared to Cygwin, because Redis works almost 
perfectly on 
Cygwin (just 2 tests to fix but I know what's wrong). So before to go for the 
#ifdefs 
solution there is to understand the real benefits.

Another issue is that Redis is free software, it's hard to imagine that VS is 
needed in 
order to compile it for Widows. Everything should work with free tools. Maybe 
it's 
possible to compile a VS project using just MSYS?

Original comment by anti...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2009 at 4:36

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If you want a system that is compatible with the redis interface check out 
TSnosql on
twistedstorage.sourceforge.net. I wrote a Python implementation of "redis" 
because I
needed something easy to modify, runs on everything and supports redis. I used 
the
redis test scripts to make sure it is compatible.

Original comment by eprparad...@gmail.com on 26 Oct 2009 at 5:46

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Hi antirez,

When I tried to compile with cygwin , there were few compilation 
errors/warnings such as
 the switch '-rdyanamic' was not recognized
and so forth...

Attached is the screen shot of redis compilation.

platform: MS Windows XP Professional SP 3

Original comment by sagarpa...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2009 at 4:55

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I Have build ver 1.0.2 with cygwin under windows.
It is hosted here, if somebody needs it:
http://web.itpeople.ee/itamp-project/

Original comment by rib...@gmail.com on 14 Nov 2009 at 12:37

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Hi antirez,

I think it would be a good idea if you could provide up-to-date windows builds. 
Windows is an important development platform as many developers still develop 
on 
windows. It would be a lot easier for us to be able to run redis on our 
development 
machine without needing access to another *nix server or have a *nix instance 
running 
inside a VM. 

I would think it would be a good idea to optimize for *nix servers but still 
have all 
the tests pass on windows.

Original comment by demis.be...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2010 at 3:03

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Hello antirez,

I prefer a native Win32 build instead of a cygwin build, reasons below:

1) Licenses

The cygwin build redis will be covered by GPL license if I understand the cygwin
license[1] correclty. 

2) The cygwin dll sometimes is not reliable, maybe bias, it's based on my own 
experience.

Regarding the compiler, I think we have two choice at least:
1) Mingw
2) VC2008 express edition which is also a free software can be downloaded from 
MS site.

[1] http://www.cygwin.com/licensing.html

BR,
Austin

Original comment by xu4wang@gmail.com on 14 Jan 2010 at 10:11

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Another vote for a native build using Visual Studio. As xu4wang mentioned the 
express 
editions are free:

http://www.microsoft.com/express/downloads/#2008-Visual-CPP
http://www.microsoft.com/express/downloads/#2010-Visual-CPP

Cygwin is a pain to install and use on Windows -- imagine having to run 
something in WINE. 
MSYS is similarly painful and often broken - there is not even a currently 
supported 
installer for mingw (not to mention their website is completely offline while I 
post this: 
http://www.mingw.org , I get Than Girl everyone knows so well: 
http://i.nuseek.com/images/template/360x318/ist2_746781_female_student.jpg )

The platform differences can be neatly abstracted away, and have been by many 
projects so 
there are a lot of examples. As you can see by this thread, there would be many 
contributers willing to help, including myself.

Original comment by gha...@gmail.com on 3 Feb 2010 at 12:28

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I'm not sure this would influence anyone, but boy could I use this.

My project is multi-platform based on the same porting layer that Postgres uses 
for
native MSVC compiling. And that is solid.

I am also using OpenMPI, which uses CMake builds to support MSVC native 
compilation.
That seems to work pretty well, too. (Surprisingly.) And they support NSIS 
installers
for your final code. Nice.

But I need a key value store as well.

MongoDB is multi-platform, but pulls in a lot of stuff I don't like to 
accomplish
that. More stuff to install everywhere, and not so easy, either.

Redis looks better than MongoDB anyway, IMHO. I am hoping that Google will be 
open to
native cross-platform on the Redis front.

If Postgres can do this native on Windows, so can Redis.

Original comment by cjohn...@valverdecomputing.com on 22 Feb 2010 at 6:44

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> Comment 9  by ribozz, Nov 13, 2009

Thank you! i successfully downloaded and runned your port to Windows. 

However it'd be very nice to have native windows release. 
Or to have windows port synced with the official (having now 1.0.2 vs 1.2.0).

Original comment by idob...@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2010 at 9:22

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I'd like to see a Redis port for Windows as well. I'm gonna try to build it 
with VS.
Anyways, there is the express version of visual studio which is a free download!

Original comment by felipe.l...@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2010 at 7:35

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If you want a system API compatible with redis that runs under Windows, Linux or
MacOS check out TSnosql - part of the Twisted Storage project. It is written in
Python so it won't match the performance of redis, but it does "haul".

Original comment by eprparad...@gmail.com on 24 Feb 2010 at 8:18

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For anyone that needs it, I'm hosting windows builds of Redis using Cygwin at:
http://code.google.com/p/servicestack/wiki/RedisWindowsDownload

Original comment by demis.be...@gmail.com on 24 Mar 2010 at 8:20

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I am curious if not that VMware is sponsoring development, if we'll see 
movement on a native version on 
Windows.  I don't know VMware's goals with the project, but I'm pretty sure ESX 
is primarily used to deploy 
Windows guests and they might be interested in those customers deploying 
Windows being able to use redis as 
well.

I'd love to use redis in some Windows based projects, but could never tell 
customers to run/install redis under 
cygwin and especially if it wouldn't be supported.

Original comment by ken.invo...@gmail.com on 31 Mar 2010 at 6:15

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I'm trying to build this wing mingw/gcc 3.4.5, but the compiler doesn't
know what an fd_set is:

gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
C:\Users\ericp\lab\db\redis-1.2.6>make
gcc -c -std=c99 -pedantic -O2 -Wall -W   -g -rdynamic -ggdb   adlist.c
gcc.exe: unrecognized option `-rdynamic'
gcc -c -std=c99 -pedantic -O2 -Wall -W   -g -rdynamic -ggdb   ae.c
gcc.exe: unrecognized option `-rdynamic'
In file included from ae.c:51:
ae_select.c:8: error: syntax error before "fd_set"

... errors cascade

Do I need to upgrade to gcc 4?  Is there one in mingw somewhere?

Original comment by bill.kid...@gmail.com on 27 Apr 2010 at 11:11

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Get outside the comfort zone and just work with linux. You can developing on 
Windows,
while having access to a linux box. There are a bunch of alternatives, including
running a free virtual pc or a cheap linux vps host (like linode or something).

Original comment by google84...@openmymind.io on 17 May 2010 at 4:01

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I was able to compile redis in windows 7 by using 'Subsystem for UNIX'. Not 
extensive test, but both the server and cli seems to be working. I'm not sure 
the windows without 'Subsytem for UNIX' able to run or not. This feature only 
available for 'Enterprise' or 'Ultimate' version of windows 7 and windows 
server 2008. There are older version for vista (not sure about xp). Few 
modification need to make for the src code like strtoll and wait3 which is not 
supported. Otherwise, compile successfully with some warning. Anyone mind to 
have a try?

Original comment by sgwong...@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2010 at 6:06

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I just notice that my binary only run in POSIX environment provided by the 
'Subsystem for UNIX' from Windows 7. So, those windows without this feature not 
able to run it. For those who has enterprise or ultimate windows can turn on 
it(by default it is off).

Original comment by sgwong...@gmail.com on 25 Sep 2010 at 6:17

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@sgwong513: I've tried your package with WinXP (SP2 32bit) and Win2008 (R2 
64bit). I installed 'Subsystem for UNIX' on both. redis-server.exe and 
redis-cli.exe both print no output to console. It gets a "Windows NT exception" 
and a core file is created (see attachment). 

P.S.: Have you tested the performance with redis-benchmark? The cygwin based 
windows version seems to be 4-10 times slower than the linux version on the 
same hardware.

Original comment by ludger.sprenker on 27 Sep 2010 at 12:51

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>>The cygwin based windows version seems to be 4-10 times slower than the linux 
version on the same hardware.

I can confirm this; in my case it was 3-4 times slower -- the other issue with 
cygwin is that you're limited to 32-bit.

Original comment by boud...@gmail.com on 27 Sep 2010 at 7:54

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@sgwong513: Got your version working on Win2008R2, seems it requires SUA 6.1 
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=139521). Sadly it is still more slowly 
than the Cygwin version. (I used redis-benchmark.exe from the Cygwin release on 
the same host for my test.)

Perhaps I'll try to compile it by my self with SUA/gcc and experiment with some 
compiler switches and a 64-bit version. 
At least the automatic saving and BGSAVE should be faster with 'System for 
UNIX' as the Cygwin implementation of fork() is crap in comparsion to the 
native fork() of modern Unixes.

Original comment by ludger.sprenker on 28 Sep 2010 at 12:55

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There are mingw ported of redis available, refer to this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyinstaller/browse_thread/thread/ba6bac3df60fef
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Original comment by sgwong...@gmail.com on 16 Oct 2010 at 11:52

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Please prioritize Windows support. It's not my favorite environment either, but 
it really rocks when things "just work" on a variety of platforms.

Original comment by andrew.p...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2013 at 8:30

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Microsoft is working on their own version of Redis for windows.  Please see 
https://github.com/MSOpenTech/Redis for more details.

Additionally, google code is no longer the repository of record for Redis.  
Please direct future attention to the github repository:

https://github.com/antirez/redis

Original comment by felixga...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2013 at 9:14