Hi!

So what is this? It is a library in C for connecting to memcached servers
(http://danga.com/memcached/). It is also a collection of utilities designed
to work with memcached.

memcat - Copy the value of a key to standard output
memflush - Flush the contents of your servers.
memrm - Remove a key(s) from the server.
memstat - Dump the stats of your servers to standard output
memslap - Load generation utility (benchmark!)

The library is in production in many locations (upwards to 1000+ nodes).

The project has information here: http://libmemcached.org/

Documentation can be found here: http://docs.libmemcached.org/

Want to contribute? If you write more then three good patches, then I will
just ask you to commit directly to the tree. I am happy to have additional
people work on this project. Please checkout README.FIRST.

You will need a C99 compiler in order to compile this library. Currently we
actively support Linux, MacOSX, FreeBSD, and Solaris. A Windows port is
currently not supported, but one is listed on the homepage that is supported
by someone in the community.

If you are looking for answers to your questions please check out the
mailing list at:
http://lists.libmemcached.org/

Subscription information for the libmemcached mailing list can be found there.

Please report bugs here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/libmemcached/

You can purchase support from:
http://datadifferential.com/


Cheers,
  -Brian Aker
   Seattle, WA.

Hi!

If you are getting this code from http://launchpad.net/libmemcached then
continue reading. Otherwise these directions are not for you (well maybe...).

To obtain code from http://bazaar.launchpad.net/libmemcached you will need to
issue the following command:

bzr branch lp:libmemcached

Once the tree is cloned you will need to build the "configure" script. You
can do this by running the script:

./bootstrap.sh autoreconf

It will set up all of the files you need to build libmemcached. At that
point it is just the typical "./configure; make; make test; make install"

For a tarball release do a "make dist" and for an RPM type "make rpm".

For patches, we prefer you push a branch to launchpad and then submit that
branch to be merged. For more information, see:

https://help.launchpad.net/Code/UploadingABranch
https://help.launchpad.net/Code/Review

Thanks and keep hacking!

Cheers,
  -Brian
  Seattle, WA.

Hi,

So you want to know how to build libmemcached on Windows? In order to
have a single build environment you need to install mingw to get a
"unix environment" to run the configure script.

An easy way to get started is to install the msysgit fullinstall
package from: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list

msysgit does not contain the "autotools" needed to generate a
configure script, so you need to generate that on another box (this
should not be a problem if you're trying to build from a tar archive).

msysgit does not contain the tools to build the documentation, so you
need to add --without-docs to configure.

I'm normally building libmemcached with:

Ex:
$ ./configure --without-docs --with-memcached=../memcached/memcached.exe
$ make all install

Happy hacking,

Trond Norbye