Windows Environment Setup

For the readers who use Windows as the learning environment, it is strongly recommended to install VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/) and then set up the Ubuntu (http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/) 16.04 operating system on a virtual machine. If you would like to stick to Windows, this chapter will show you how to set up a Windows environment for your learning:

1. Install Ubuntu on Windows 10. In order to compile Redis from the source code and run the Bash shell scripts in this book, the Ubuntu subsystem of Windows 10 needs to be installed. You can follow the instructions at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about to get it installed.
2. Install Cygwin and the related packages. Install Cygwin (https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe) to C:\tools\cygwin and choose Base and Devel categories to install Make, Cmake, gcc, and bash:

3. Install...