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Install Memcached on Windows

While doing some web development, I needed to have Memcached (source code) installed on my local machine to closely simulate what was going on my server.

How to install Memcached on Windows?

Solution

  • Steps to install Memcached on Windows:

    1. Download a stable version, in either 32-bit or 64-bit I have tested the 64-bit version.
    2. Unzip it in some hard drive folder. For example C:\memcached
    3. There will be memcached.exe file in the unzipped folder.
    4. Open a command prompt (need to be opened as administrator).
    5. Run c:\memcached\memcached.exe -d install

    For start and stop run following command line

    c:\memcached\memcached.exe -d start
c:\memcached\memcached.exe -d stop