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1. General Information
2. MySQL Installation
3. Tutorial Introduction
4. Database Administration
5. MySQL Optimisation
6. MySQL Language Reference
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9. Extending MySQL

Appendix E: Porting to Other Systems 757 Appendix E Porting to Other Systems This appendix will help you port MySQL to other operationg systems. Do check the list of currently supported operating systems rst. See Section 2.2.2 [Which OS], page 69. If you have created a new port of MySQL, please let us know so that we can list it here and on our web site (http://www.mysql.com/), recommending it to other users. Note: If you create a new port of MySQL, you are free to copy and distribute it under the GPL license, but it does not make you a copyright holder of MySQL. A working Posix thread library is needed for the server. On Solaris 2.5 we use Sun PThreads (the native thread support in 2.4 and earlier versions are not good enough) and on Linux we use LinuxThreads by Xavier Leroy, Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr. The hard part of porting to a new Unix variant without good native thread support is probably to port MIT-pthreads. See `mit-pthreads/README' and Programming POSIX Threads (http://www.humanfactor.com/pthreads/). The MySQL distribution includes a patched version of Provenzano's Pthreads from MIT (see the MIT Pthreads web page at http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/proven/pthreads.html) This can be used for some operating systems that do not have POSIX threads. It is also possible to use another user level thread package named FSU Pthreads (see FSU Pthreads home page (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/pthreads.html)). This implementation is being used for the SCO port. See the `thr_lock.c' and `thr_alarm.c' programs in the `mysys' directory for some tests/examples of these problems. Both the server and the client need a working C++ compiler (we use gcc and have tried SPARCworks). Another compiler that is known to work is the Irix cc. To compile only the client use ./configure --without-server. There is currently no support for only compiling the server, nor is it likly to be added unless someone has a good reason for it. If you want/need to change any `Makefile' or the congure script you must get Automake and Autoconf. We have used the automake-1.2 and autoconf-2.12 distributions. All steps needed to remake everything from the most basic les. /bin/rm */.deps/*.P /bin/rm -f config.cache aclocal autoheader aclocal automake autoconf ./configure --with-debug=full --prefix='your installation directory' # The makefiles generated above need GNU make 3.75 or newer. # (called gmake below) gmake clean all install init-db If you run into problems with a new port, you may have to do some debugging of MySQL! See Section E.1 [Debugging server], page 758.

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