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README

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-Where to find complete Redis documentation?
--------------------------------------------
-
-This README is just a fast "quick start" document. You can find more detailed
-documentation at http://redis.io
-
-Building Redis
---------------
-
-Redis can be compiled and used on Linux, OSX, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD.
-We support big endian and little endian architectures.
-
-It may compile on Solaris derived systems (for instance SmartOS) but our
-support for this platform is "best effort" and Redis is not guaranteed to
-work as well as in Linux, OSX, and *BSD there.
-
-It is as simple as:
-
-    % make
-
-You can run a 32 bit Redis binary using:
-
-    % make 32bit
-
-After building Redis is a good idea to test it, using:
-
-    % make test
-
-NOTE: if after building Redis with a 32 bit target you need to rebuild it
-      with a 64 bit target you need to perform a "make clean" in the root
-      directory of the Redis distribution.
-
-Allocator
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-
-Selecting a non-default memory allocator when building Redis is done by setting
-the `MALLOC` environment variable. Redis is compiled and linked against libc
-malloc by default, with the exception of jemalloc being the default on Linux
-systems. This default was picked because jemalloc has proven to have fewer
-fragmentation problems than libc malloc.
-
-To force compiling against libc malloc, use:
-
-    % make MALLOC=libc
-
-To compile against jemalloc on Mac OS X systems, use:
-
-    % make MALLOC=jemalloc
-
-Verbose build
--------------
-
-Redis will build with a user friendly colorized output by default.
-If you want to see a more verbose output use the following:
-
-    % make V=1
-
-Running Redis
--------------
-
-To run Redis with the default configuration just type:
-
-    % cd src
-    % ./redis-server
-    
-If you want to provide your redis.conf, you have to run it using an additional
-parameter (the path of the configuration file):
-
-    % cd src
-    % ./redis-server /path/to/redis.conf
-
-It is possible to alter the Redis configuration passing parameters directly
-as options using the command line. Examples:
-
-    % ./redis-server --port 9999 --slaveof 127.0.0.1 6379
-    % ./redis-server /etc/redis/6379.conf --loglevel debug
-
-All the options in redis.conf are also supported as options using the command
-line, with exactly the same name.
-
-Playing with Redis
-------------------
-
-You can use redis-cli to play with Redis. Start a redis-server instance,
-then in another terminal try the following:
-
-    % cd src
-    % ./redis-cli
-    redis> ping
-    PONG
-    redis> set foo bar
-    OK
-    redis> get foo
-    "bar"
-    redis> incr mycounter
-    (integer) 1
-    redis> incr mycounter
-    (integer) 2
-    redis> 
-
-You can find the list of all the available commands here:
-
-    http://redis.io/commands
-
-Installing Redis
------------------
-
-In order to install Redis binaries into /usr/local/bin just use:
-
-    % make install
-
-You can use "make PREFIX=/some/other/directory install" if you wish to use a
-different destination.
-
-Make install will just install binaries in your system, but will not configure
-init scripts and configuration files in the appropriate place. This is not
-needed if you want just to play a bit with Redis, but if you are installing
-it the proper way for a production system, we have a script doing this
-for Ubuntu and Debian systems:
-
-    % cd utils
-    % ./install_server
-
-The script will ask you a few questions and will setup everything you need
-to run Redis properly as a background daemon that will start again on
-system reboots.
-
-You'll be able to stop and start Redis using the script named
-/etc/init.d/redis_<portnumber>, for instance /etc/init.d/redis_6379.
-
-Code contributions
----
-
-Note: by contributing code to the Redis project in any form, including sending
-a pull request via Github, a code fragment or patch via private email or
-public discussion groups, you agree to release your code under the terms
-of the BSD license that you can find in the COPYING file included in the Redis
-source distribution.
-
-Please see the CONTRIBUTING file in this source distribution for more
-information.
-
-Enjoy!

README.md

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+Redis on Windows 2.6 prototype
+===
+## What's new in this release
+
+- This is a port for Windows based on Redis 2.6.8.
+- The port is similar to the port of Redis 2.4, including the same background saving technology.
+- There is support for x64 version as well as 32 bit versions.
+- For the 64 bit version, there is a limit of 2^32 objects in a structure, and a max length of 2^32 for any object
+- Version number now 2.6.8-pre1 to indicate prerelease and to enable changing
+
+===
+Special thanks to Dušan Majkic (https://github.com/dmajkic, https://github.com/dmajkic/redis/) for his project on GitHub that gave us the opportunity to quickly learn some on the intricacies of Redis code. His project also helped us to build our prototype quickly.
+
+## Repo branches
+- 2.6_alpha: This is the only 2.6 branch so far. Only basic testing has been done.
+
+## How to build Redis using Visual Studio
+
+You can use the free Express Edition available at http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-cpp-express.
+
+- Open the solution file msvs\redisserver.sln in Visual Studio 10, select platform (win32 or x64) and build.
+
+    This should create the following executables in the msvs\$(Configuration) folder:
+
+    - redis-server.exe
+    - redis-benchmark.exe
+    - redis-cli.exe
+    - redis-check-dump.exe
+    - redis-check-aof.exe
+
+For your convenience all binaries are be available in the msvs/bin/release|debug directories.
+
+## RedisWatcher
+So far the RedisWatcher is not carried over to 2.6. However this should not be affected by the Redis version, and the code in the 2.4 branch should work with the Redis 2.6 binaries.
+
+## RedisWAInst
+So far the RedisWAInst is not carried over to 2.6. However this should not be affected by the Redis version, and the code in the 2.4 branch should work with the Redis 2.6 binaries.
+
+## Release Notes
+
+This is a pre-release version of the software.
+
+To run the Redis test suite requires some manual work:
+
+- The tests assume that the binaries are in the src folder, so you need to copy the binaries from the msvs folder to src. 
+- The tests make use of TCL. This must be installed separately.
+- To run the tests you need to have a Unix shell on your machine. To execute the tests, run the following command: `tclsh8.5.exe tests/test_helper.tcl`. 
+  
+If a Unix shell is not installed you may see the following error message: "couldn't execute "cat": no such file or directory".
+
+## Known issues
+When the unit tests are run, a few failures are reported, mostly related to replication. The exact failures vary per run. The tests pass if they are run individually. We are still investigating if this is a timing problem with the tests or with the port of the Redis server.
+
+The are 3 consistent failures in the protocol module, having to do with receiving an error message when the client connection is closed due to bad data. These tests are disabled for now.
+
+