1、Introduction
2、Command Invocation Syntax
3、Installation Layout Options
4、Storage Engine Options
5、Library Options
6、Miscellaneous Options
7、Debugging the Configuration Process
8、Interface to Third-Party Tools
Introduction
This page shows some common autotools configuration options and how they map to CMake equivalents. It supplements the CMake page that describes how to build MySQL with CMake.
The following table shows some common configure invocation syntax and the equivalent CMake commands. The "." should be replaced with the path to the top-level directory of the source tree if that directory is not your current working directory.
configure Command | CMake Command |
./configure | cmake . |
./configure --help | cmake . -LH or ccmake . |
To clean out old object files and cached information before reconfiguring and rebuilding:
Autotools:
make clean
rm config.cache
CMake (Unix):
make clean
rm CMakeCache.txt
CMake (Windows):
devenv MySQL.sln /clean
del CMakeCache.txt
These options control where to install various MySQL components.
In the following table, the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX value is the installation base directory. Many other CMake layout options are interpreted relative to the prefix and their values are relative pathnames. Their values should not include the prefix.
Parameter | configure Option | CMake Option | CMake Notes |
Installation base directory | --prefix=/usr | -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr | |
mysqld directory | --libexecdir=/usr/sbin | -DINSTALL_SBINDIR=sbin | interpreted relative to prefix |
Data directory | --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql | -DMYSQL_DATADIR=/var/lib/mysql | |
Config directory (for my.cnf) | --sysconfdir=/etc/mysql | -DSYSCONFDIR=/etc/mysql | |
Plugin directory | --with-plugindir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin | -DINSTALL_PLUGINDIR=lib64/mysql/plugin | interpreted relative to prefix |
Man page directory | --mandir=/usr/share/man | -DINSTALL_MANDIR=share/man | interpreted relative to prefix |
Shared-data directory | --sharedstatedir=/usr/share/mysql | -DINSTALL_SHAREDIR=share | this is where aclocal/mysql.m4 should be installed |
Library installation directory | --libdir=/usr/lib64/mysql | -DINSTALL_LIBDIR=lib64/mysql | interpreted relative to prefix |
Header installation directory | --includedir=/usr/include/mysql | -DINSTALL_INCLUDEDIR=include/mysql | interpreted relative to prefix |
Info doc directory | --infodir=/usr/share/info | -DINSTALL_INFODIR=share/info | interpreted relative to prefix |
Storage Engine Options
Storage engines are plugins, so the options that control plugin building specify which storage engines to build.
The --with-plugins configure option accepts two constructs that have no direct equivalent in CMake:
--with-plugins accepts a comma-separated list of engine names
--with-plugins accepts a "group name" value that is shorthand for a set of engines
With CMake, engines are controlled with individual options.
Suppose that the configure option is:
--with-plugins=csv,myisam,myisammrg,heap,innobase,archive,blackhole
This builds the named engines as static plugins that are compiled into the server and need not be installed explicitly.
To convert this for CMake, omit these engine names because they are mandatory (always compiled in):
csv myisam myisammrg heap
Then use these options to enable the InnoDB, ARCHIVE, and BLACKHOLE engines:
-DWITH_INNOBASE_STORAGE_ENGINE=1
-DWITH_ARCHIVE_STORAGE_ENGINE=1
-DWITH_BLACKHOLE_STORAGE_ENGINE=1
You can also use ON rather than 1 as the option value.
If you used --without-plugin-<engine> in configure to exclude a storage engine from the build, use -DWITHOUT_<ENGINE>_STORAGE_ENGINE in CMake.
Examples:
-DWITHOUT_EXAMPLE_STORAGE_ENGINE=1
-DWITHOUT_FEDERATED_STORAGE_ENGINE=1
-DWITHOUT_PARTITION_STORAGE_ENGINE=1
If neither -DWITH_<ENGINE>_STORAGE_ENGINE nor -DWITHOUT_<ENGINE>_STORAGE_ENGINE are specified for a given storage engine, the engine is built as a shared module, or excluded if it cannot be built as a shared module. A shared module must be installed using the INSTALL PLUGIN statement or the --plugin-load option before it can be used.
For additional information about CMake options for plugins, see the Plugin support page of the Internals manual.
These options shown in the following table indicate which libraries to use.
Parameter | configure Option | CMake Option | CMake Notes |
readline library | --with-readline | -DWITH_READLINE=1 | |
SSL library | --with-ssl=/usr | -DWITH_SSL=system | |
zlib library | --with-zlib-dir=/usr | -DWITH_ZLIB=system | |
libwrap library | --without-libwrap | -DWITH_LIBWRAP=0 |
Miscellaneous Options
Most of the previous MySQL build options are supported. The normal mapping between old and new is uppercase, remove leading dashes, replace dash with underscore.
Examples:
--with-debug => WITH_DEBUG=1
--with-embedded-server => WITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER
Parameter | configure Option | CMake Option | CMake Notes |
TCP/IP port number | --with-tcp-port-=3306 | -DMYSQL_TCP_PORT=3306 | |
UNIX socket file | --with-unix-socket-path=/tmp/mysqld.sock | -DMYSQL_UNIX_ADDR=/tmp/mysqld.sock | |
Enable LOCAL for LOAD DATA | --enable-local-infile | -DENABLED_LOCAL_INFILE=1 | |
Extra charsets | --with-extra-charsets=all | -DEXTRA_CHARSETS=all | default is "all" |
Default charset | --with-charset=utf8 | -DDEFAULT_CHARSET=utf8 | |
Default collation | --with-collation=utf8_general_ci | -DDEFAULT_COLLATION=utf8_general_ci | |
Build the server | --with-server | none | |
Build the embedded server | --with-embedded-server | -DWITH_EMBEDDED_SERVER=1 | |
libmysqld privilege control | --with-embedded-privilege-control | none | always enabled? |
Install the documentation | --without-docs | none | |
Big tables | --with-big-tables, --without-big-tables | none | tables are big by default |
mysqld user | --with-mysqld-user=mysql | -DMYSQL_USER=mysql | mysql is the default |
Debugging | --without-debug | -DWITH_DEBUG=0 | default is debugging disabled |
GIS support | --with-geometry | none | always enabled? |
Community features | --enable-community-features | none | always enabled |
Profiling | --disable-profiling | -DENABLE_PROFILING=0 | enabled by default |
pstack | --without-pstack | none | pstack is removed |
Assembler string functions | --enable-assembler | none | |
Build type | --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu | no equivalent | unneeded? |
Cross-compile host | --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu | no equivalent | unneeded? |
Client flag | --with-client-ldflags=-lstdc++ | none | unneeded |
Client flag | --enable-thread-safe-client | none | unneeded, clients are always thread safe |
Comment | --with-comment='string' | -DWITH_COMMENT='string' | |
Shared/static binaries | --enable-shared --enable-static | none | there is only DISABLE_SHARED |
Memory use | --with-low-memory | none | unneeded |
Debugging the Configuration Process
Configuration with autotools produces config.log and config.status files.
Configuration with CMake produces files under the CMakeFiles directory : CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log and CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log
Interface to Third-Party Tools
Previously, third-party tools that need to determine the MySQL version from the MySQL source read the configure.in file in the top-level source directory. For example, the AC_INIT line for 5.5.7-rc looked like this:
AC_INIT([MySQL Server], [5.5.7-rc], [], [mysql])
Such tools now can read the VERSION file. For example, if the version is 5.5.8, the file looks like this:
MYSQL_VERSION_MAJOR=5
MYSQL_VERSION_MINOR=5
MYSQL_VERSION_PATCH=8
MYSQL_VERSION_EXTRA=
If the source is not for a General Availablility (GA) release, the MYSQL_VERSION_EXTRA value will be nonempty. For example, the value for a Release Candidate release would look like this:
MYSQL_VERSION_EXTRA=rc
To construct a five-digit number from the version components, use this formula:
MYSQL_VERSION_MAJOR*10000 + MYSQL_VERSION_MINOR*100 + MYSQL_VERSION_PATCH