Launch Terminal and execute the following commands where adminID is your administrator ID. Create the source code directory and unpack To download the MySQL 5.0 source, you must go to the archivesĪnd select Source and other files. Select the Source Code platform and download the Generic Linux (Architecture Independent) Compressed Download the source code and unpack into source directory Download the MySQL source codeĭownload the MySQL Generally Available Release (GA) source code from This document has been largely superseded by Compiling and Installing MariaDB 5 on OS X Mavericks. It is helpful to have some knowledge of the basic UNIX commands and

I have tried to make this document as concise and direct to the pointĪs possible. You may not have to perform some of the steps such as creating the MySQL source or If in the past, you have installed MySQL from source, Installing MySQL from scratch for the first time. These instructions also assume that you are Or (XCode 3.2.1 - Snow Leopard) are installed, that you are logged in as an administrator and using the BASH shell. This document assumes that the OS X developer tools (XCode 3.13 - Leopard) With the binary package than the permissions structure used in this compiled version of MySQL. Have to preface some of the commands with sudo, as the permissions structure is somewhat different Go to the data database directory instead of the var directory to check for errors. Start MySQL Database Server and Check for Errors section of this document, except Just unpack and install the DMG package and and start with the If you are installing the pre-compiled MySQL binary package (DMG) you can skip just aboutĮverything in this document. Or 1-way 64-bit (Snow Leopard) binary for the architecture you are compiling on, or cross compile aģ2/64-bit 4-way universal binary for both PowerPC and x86 architectures. You can build either a 1-way 32-bit (Leopard) Giving you a better sense of how to administer the server.

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