antirez/redis — Issue #238: Lack of native Windows support
Author: MS-Interop
Created: 2011-12-06 22:23:07+00:00
State: open

We have received a growing number of requests for Redis to run on Windows, even more so as we announced Windows support for Node.js.
We love the idea of running Redis natively on the Windows platform, and this is why in past few weeks a team in Microsoft spent some time to make Redis to run natively on Windows using LibUV (high performance I/O abstraction library developed by the node.js community that allows high-throughput and high-concurrency scenarios in both Windows and *nix).

By leveraging dmajkic’s work (https://github.com/dmajkic/redis/) we created a patch that, once applied on top of Redis 2.4 provides a way to compile an executable for Windows (and Linux).
The patch (with instructions) is available at https://gist.github.com/1439660