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Valkey Glide

Build From Source

Prerequisites

Section titled “Prerequisites”
  • Go
  • GNU Make
  • git
  • GCC
  • pkg-config
  • cmake
  • protoc (protobuf compiler) >= v3.20.0
  • openssl
  • openssl-dev
  • rustup
  • ziglang and zigbuild (for GNU Linux only)
  • valkey (for testing)

Valkey installation

Section titled “Valkey installation”

See the Valkey installation guide to install the Valkey server and CLI.

Build Instructions

Section titled “Build Instructions”

  1. Install Common Prerequisites

    Section titled “Install Common Prerequisites”
    Terminal window
    sudo apt update -y
    sudo apt install -y git gcc pkg-config openssl libssl-dev unzip cmake python3
    # Install rust
    curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
    source "$HOME/.cargo/env"
    # Check that the Rust compiler is installed
    rustc --version

    Install ziglang and zigbuild

    Section titled “Install ziglang and zigbuild”
    Terminal window
    pip3 install ziglang
    cargo install --locked cargo-zigbuild

    Install Protobuf Compiler

    Section titled “Install Protobuf Compiler”
    Terminal window
    PB_REL="https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases"
    curl -LO $PB_REL/download/v29.1/protoc-29.1-linux-x86_64.zip
    unzip protoc-29.1-linux-x86_64.zip -d $HOME/.local
    export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"
    protoc --version

    Other platform-specific binaries can be found here.

  2. Install Go

    Section titled “Install Go”
    Terminal window
    sudo snap install go --classic
    export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/go/bin"

  3. Clone the repository

    Section titled “Clone the repository”
    Terminal window
    mkdir -p $HOME/src
    cd $HOME/src
    git clone https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey-glide.git
    cd valkey-glide

  4. Install Dependencies and Build

    Section titled “Install Dependencies and Build”
    Terminal window
    cd go
    # Only needed once.
    make install-build-tools
    make build

  5. Quick Test

    Section titled “Quick Test”
    Terminal window
    go test -race ./...

  6. Install Go development tools

    Section titled “Install Go development tools”
    Terminal window
    make install-dev-tools