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Visual Studio Community 2015 Update 1 (https://www.visualstudio.com/)
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CMake ("Windows Installer" from https://cmake.org/download/)
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node.js with NPM (https://nodejs.org/en/download/) We need at least NPM 3.x, since earlier versions of NPM will create folder structures that are to deep for Windows (http://stackoverflow.com/a/31315303/2413884). You can upgrade NPM by running
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Cygwin (https://cygwin.com/install.html)
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Additional Cygwin packages:
setup.exe -q -P make setup.exe -q -P curl setup.exe -q -P patch setup.exe -q -P git -
If git is not configured yet,
git config --global user.name "John Doe"andgit config --global user.email [email protected]
From a Cygwin shell:
./configure
make -j
Will first download and build the libraries that RethinkDB needs, then
build RethinkDB itself and place it in build\Release_x64\rethinkdb.exe
If make complains about missing files in mk/gen, run mkdir mk/gen manually.
Then run make -j again.
On some systems, you might get permission errors like the ones described in
npm/npm#10826 during the build from npm.
Try running npm install -g JSONStream and then run make -j again to work
around this issue.