Building latest Redis to use in Cygwin

Today I had to use Redis for the first time which doesn’t seem very well supported under Windows at this point. Coming from Linux I try to use Cygwin under Windows as often as I can. So here is what I did to build the latest Redis version (there were some old binaries for download but I wanted to use a newer version). First make sure you have the Cygwin packages “make” and “gcc” installed. Then open a Cygwin terminal and follow the steps under “Installation” but do not run “make” yet. Before you run “make” open the file src/redis.c and add the following block somewhere on top of the file (I have copied it just one line before the #include statement):

	#ifdef __CYGWIN__
	#ifndef SA_ONSTACK
	#define SA_ONSTACK 0x08000000
	#endif
	#endif

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This is a manual change which I found in this issue. Finally run “make”. Ignore the warnings. If all goes well, you should have a bunch of new .exe files at the end. redis-benchmark.exe, redis-check-aof.exe, redis-check-dump.exe, redis-cli.exe and redis-server.exe – copy them into the bin folder of your Cygwin installation and restart the terminal. To test execute “redis-cli -h <your-redis-server> -p <your-redis-port> ping” and hopefully get a pong back.