WINDOWS.md

Building the Windows version of RethinkDB

Requirements

• Visual Studio Community 2015 Update 1 (https://www.visualstudio.com/)

• CMake ("Windows Installer" from https://cmake.org/download/)

• 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 npm install -g npm.

• Cygwin (https://cygwin.com/install.html)

• Additional Cygwin packages:

  setup.exe -q -P make
  setup.exe -q -P curl
  setup.exe -q -P wget
  setup.exe -q -P patch
  setup.exe -q -P git
  

• If git is not configured yet, git config --global user.name "John Doe" and git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com

Build Instructions

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.