This is a simple step-by-step explanation of how I was able to build RocksDB (or RocksJava) and all of the 3rd-party libraries on Microsoft Windows 10. The Windows build system was already in place, however it took some trial-and-error for me to be able to build the 3rd-party libraries and incorporate them into the build.
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 (Community)
- CMake
- Git - I used the Windows Git Bash.
- Mercurial - I used the 64bit MSI installer
- wget
Create a directory somewhere on your machine that will be used a container for both the RocksDB source code and that of its 3rd-party dependencies. On my machine I used C:\Users\aretter\code, from hereon in I will just refer to it as %CODE_HOME%; which can be set as an environment variable, i.e. SET CODE_HOME=C:\Users\aretter\code.
All of the following is executed from the "Developer Command Prompt for VS2015":
cd %CODE_HOME%
wget https://github.com/gflags/gflags/archive/v2.2.0.zip
unzip v2.2.0.zip
cd gflags-2.2.0
mkdir target
cd target
cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 Win64" ..
Open the project in Visual Studio, create a new x64 Platform by copying the Win32 platform and selecting x64 CPU. Close Visual Studio.
msbuild gflags.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=x64
msbuild gflags.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
The resultant static library can be found in %CODE_HOME%\gflags-2.2.0\target\lib\Debug\gflags_static.lib or %CODE_HOME%\gflags-2.2.0\target\lib\Debug\gflags_static.lib.
cd %CODE_HOME%
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/robertvazan/snappy-visual-cpp
cd snappy-visual-cpp
hg diff --reverse -r 44:45 > exports.patch
hg import exports.patch
devenv snappy.sln /upgrade
msbuild snappy.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=x64
msbuild snappy.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
When running the msbuild step, if you get an error like:
error : This project references NuGet package(s) that are mis sing on this computer. Enable NuGet Package Restore to download them.
You will need to open the project in Visual Studio and build it from there. You can then exit Visual Studio and re-run the msbuild steps; Unfortunately I have been unable to resolve how to fix the NuGet enablement from the command line.
The resultant static library can be found in %CODE_HOME%\snappy-visual-cpp\x64\Debug\snappy64.lib or %CODE_HOME%\snappy-visual-cpp\x64\Release\snappy64.lib.
cd %CODE_HOME%
wget https://github.com/lz4/lz4/archive/v1.7.5.zip
unzip v1.7.5.zip
cd lz4-1.7.5
cd visual\VS2010
devenv lz4.sln /upgrade
msbuild lz4.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=x64
msbuild lz4.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
The resultant static library can be found in %CODE_HOME%\lz4-1.7.5\visual\VS2010\bin\x64_Debug\liblz4_static.lib or %CODE_HOME%\lz4-1.7.5\visual\VS2010\bin\x64_Release\liblz4_static.lib.
cd %CODE_HOME%
wget http://zlib.net/zlib1211.zip
unzip zlib1211.zip
cd zlib-1.2.11\contrib\vstudio\vc14
Edit the file zlibvc.vcxproj, changing <command>cd ..\..\contrib\masmx64 bld_ml64.bat</command> to <command>cd ..\..\masmx64 bld_ml64.bat</command>.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\amd64_x86\vcvarsamd64_x86.bat"
msbuild zlibvc.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform=x64
msbuild zlibvc.sln /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
copy x64\ZlibDllDebug\zlibwapi.lib x64\ZlibStatDebug\
copy x64\ZlibDllRelease\zlibwapi.lib x64\ZlibStatRelease\
The resultant static library can be found in %CODE_HOME%\zlib-1.2.11\contrib\vstudio\vc14\x64\ZlibStatDebug\zlibwapi.lib or %CODE_HOME%\zlib-1.2.11\contrib\vstudio\vc14\x64\ZlibStatRelease\zlibwapi.lib.
cd %CODE_HOME%
git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
cd rocksdb
Edit the file %CODE_HOME%\rocksdb\thirdparty.inc to have these changes:
set(GFLAGS_HOME $ENV{THIRDPARTY_HOME}/gflags-2.2.0)
set(GFLAGS_INCLUDE ${GFLAGS_HOME}/target/include)
set(GFLAGS_LIB_DEBUG ${GFLAGS_HOME}/target/lib/Debug/gflags_static.lib)
set(GFLAGS_LIB_RELEASE ${GFLAGS_HOME}/target/lib/Release/gflags_static.lib)
set(SNAPPY_HOME $ENV{THIRDPARTY_HOME}/snappy-visual-cpp)
set(SNAPPY_INCLUDE ${SNAPPY_HOME})
set(SNAPPY_LIB_DEBUG ${SNAPPY_HOME}/x64/Debug/snappy64.lib)
set(SNAPPY_LIB_RELEASE ${SNAPPY_HOME}/x64/Release/snappy64.lib)
set(LZ4_HOME $ENV{THIRDPARTY_HOME}/lz4-1.7.5)
set(LZ4_INCLUDE ${LZ4_HOME}/lib)
set(LZ4_LIB_DEBUG ${LZ4_HOME}/visual/VS2010/bin/x64_Debug/liblz4_static.lib)
set(LZ4_LIB_RELEASE ${LZ4_HOME}/visual/VS2010/bin/x64_Release/liblz4_static.lib)
set(ZLIB_HOME $ENV{THIRDPARTY_HOME}/zlib-1.2.11)
set(ZLIB_INCLUDE ${ZLIB_HOME})
set(ZLIB_LIB_DEBUG ${ZLIB_HOME}/contrib/vstudio/vc14/x64/ZlibStatDebug/zlibwapi.lib)
set(ZLIB_LIB_RELEASE ${ZLIB_HOME}/contrib/vstudio/vc14/x64/ZlibStatRelease/zlibwapi.lib)
And then finally to compile RocksDB:
mkdir build
cd build
set THIRDPARTY_HOME=%CODE_HOME%
cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 Win64" -DJNI=1 -DGFLAGS=1 -DSNAPPY=1 -DLZ4=1 -DZLIB=1 -DXPRESS=1 ..
msbuild rocksdb.sln /p:Configuration=Release