Building Redis for use on Cygwin（转）-白红宇

This is the second time I have installed Redis for use on Cygwin in the last several months. It seems that each time the version numbers change, I step in a different hole. For those of you using Cygwin (DLL version 1.7.17-1) and Redis version 2.6.9, I hope to share my experience with you so that you can save some time.

First, make sure that you have the “make” and “gcc” Cygwin packages installed. Then, open up a Cygwin terminal window and then download and extract Redis using the following commands:

                         
$ wget http:
//redis
.googlecode.com
/files/redis-2
.6.9.
tar
.gz
$ 
tar
xzf redis-2.6.9.
tar
.gz
$ 
cd
redis-2.6.9
$ 
cd
src
        
      

Then, within the src directory, add the following to the redis.h file:

                         
#ifdef __CYGWIN__
#ifndef SA_ONSTACK
#define SA_ONSTACK 0x08000000
#endif
#endif
 
#if defined(__CYGWIN__)
#define strtold(a,b)    ((long double)strtod((a),(b)))
#endif
        
      

I added the code above right before the “Data types” comment (Before line 312). The first five lines resolve the`SA_ONSTACK' undeclared error originally identified . If you were to run make with this solution only, you would bump into the next error: undefined reference to `_strtold'. The last three lines address this error.

Ignoring warnings, make will generate the following executables in the src directory:

redis-benchmark.exe

redis-check-aof.exe

redis-check-dump.exe

redis-cli.exe

redis-sentinel.exe

redis-server.exe

Copy these files into Cygwin’s bin directory. To quickly test that Redis works, type in redis-server to start Redis with default options. In another Cygwin terminal window, start the Redis command line interface by typing redis-cli. At the prompt, simply type “ping“. If Redis is up and running, it should simply reply with “PONG“.

Enjoy!

http://blog.joshuawhite.com/open-source/building-redis-for-use-on-cygwin/