[NEW] Native windows support about valkey

[tachyons]

Original reasoning http://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-win32-msft-patch.html

[rhuddleston]

I'm assuming Microsoft created Garnet for this reason: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet

I haven't use it personally but it looks interesting

[zuiderkwast]

The code is written for Posix systems. Native Windows support would require a huge effort since many concepts are very different in that OS.

[SamuelMarks]

I was the original poster (OP) for this issue redis/redis#9728

If there is interest let me / my ppl know

[madolson]

Yeah, let's leave this and see there is strong interest in support for windows. I think the need has dropped significantly because of WSL from when the issue was already opened.

[PingXie]

Windows doesn't support fork() natively. The child process doesn't inherit the parent process's address space. Some emulation was done in WSL V1 but I don't think the performance is good for any production workload. WSL V2 runs a real Linux OS in a "utility" VM, which shares the host's disk over virtual SMB (Samba). I doubt disk operations would be as performant in this case. I think one can get Redis working on Windows but will not get the same performance as you would expect from a similarly equipped machine running Linux. It is at best a dev scenario.

[brged]

Yeah, let's leave this and see there is strong interest in support for windows. I think the need has dropped significantly because of WSL from when the issue was already opened.

At least, make it more friendly when compiling by msys2 and cygwin