On 20/03/13 06:31, Wynfield Henman wrote:
The database MariaDB looks good. It does have a windows version
available, but I, like others would prefer to learn it on a Posix
system like cygwin if at all possible.
The only information I could find matching MariaDB and cygwin as at
least a couple of years old as I recall. Has anyone built or tried
MariaDB on cygwin? I'd appreciate information about it.
I can't imagine MariaDB being much different from MySQL which I
successfully compiled MySQL on Cygwin over a year ago. It was more a
proof of concept than a practical project but I thought I'd share the
notes I made at the time:
User / Group Creation:
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Cygwin takes its users and groups from its Windows host.
I found that I couldn't create a new group if a user with the same name
already exists. This prevented me from creating both a user and group
called ‘mysql’ so I used the group name, ‘mysqlgroup’.
# create a Windows mysqlgroup group
net localgroup mysqlgroup /add
# create a mysql user
net user mysql /add
# add 'mysql' user to 'mysqlgroup'
net localgroup mysqlgroup mysql /add
# Update Cygwin's user & group files
mkpasswd -l -u mysql >> /etc/passwd
mkgroup -l -g mysqlgroup >> /etc/group
Compilation:
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Follow instructions at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/installing-source-distribution.html
The default C compiler flag -O3 doesn't work properly under Cygwin with
gcc 3.4.4
Ensure readline is installed and use:
./configure --without-readline CFLAGS=-O2
chown -vR mysql:mysqlgroup /usr/local/*/*
bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql # works fine in Cygwin
This creates the data directory and initialises the mysql and test
databases.
Hope this helps,
Anthony
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