Compile Redis with Cygwin

README.md

Prerequisites

Install Cygwin with make, gcc & g++. Download Redis tar.gz package, unpack it.

Patch

Edit deps/hiredis/net.c and add the following lines just after the include directives:

/* Cygwin Fix */
#ifdef __CYGWIN__
#define TCP_KEEPCNT 8
#define TCP_KEEPINTVL 150
#define TCP_KEEPIDLE 14400
#endif

Build

Run the following script:

cd deps/
make lua hiredis linenoise

cd ..
make

Credits

Thanks to winse, see this blog entry.