Topic: Building memcached vs redis (true headache).

[aras]

At first, let me tell what I am trying to accomplish.

I have started with building memcached (the latest version 1.4.15 - http://memcached.org/). I have prepped environment according to all info that I had found on web to build it with MingW (for winx64). Eventhough, I have followed the instructions on the web, which were supposed to lead to success, I was not able to build the memcached. What I got was only a bunch of errors.

Then, I decided to try to build a rival of the memcached – redis. I noticed that there is a probably quite active team working on windows version of it; that is probably why there is a well prepped source code to build using Visual Studio 2008. I have used Visual Studio Express 2012, and built the redis very easily.

There is a problem building the php_redis.dll though using pecl (http://pecl.php.net/package/redis and https://github.com/nicolasff/phpredis/issues/213). While compiling the extension, I am receiving the error, which had already been described here (https://github.com/nicolasff/phpredis/issues/351). The error: NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'ext\phpredis\igbinary\hash_function.c'. The error, I understand, shows that the hash_function.c is required in order to build the redis.

The link that I was referring to actually does not provide a solution for the issue. Any thoughts?

[aras]

Just found somewhat related topic posted by Jan-E (http://www.apachelounge.com/viewtopic.php?t=5555). There is the igbinary there (http://windows.php.net/downloads/pecl/releases/igbinary/1.1.1/), however, I am not sure yet what to do next with it. Let's experiment.

[aras]

I just found that there is a fix of phpredis to compile with VC11 on Win32 (allows for a php5.5 version) was posted 8 hours ago. This appears to be not yet approved by redis. Here is the link: https://github.com/nicolasff/phpredis/pull/388. I have not tried to compile yet, but hope that this is the fix to the above described issue. I will report later.