I just installed 5.7.1 on Windows and next up was to build it from source on Windows, so that’s what I did, and thought I’d share the steps.

** Prerequisites **

1. Install Microsoft Visual Studio (I installed VS 2010 Express – free)
2. Install cmake
3. Install bison (make sure no spaces in path)

** Build Instructions **

cd c:\mysql\mysql-5.7.1
mkdir bld
cd bld
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config relwithdebinfo --target package

And here is the full output for anyone who might be interested:

C:\Windows\system32>cd C:\mysql\mysql-5.7.1

C:\mysql\mysql-5.7.1>mkdir bld

C:\mysql\mysql-5.7.1>cd bld

C:\mysql\mysql-5.7.1\bld>cmake ..
-- Building for: Visual Studio 10
-- Running cmake version 2.8.11.1
-- Configuring with MAX_INDEXES = 64U
-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 16.0.30319.1
-- The CXX compiler …

I previously wrote an article on Building MariaDB 5.1 on Windows, but it was about 1.5 years ago (for 5.1.60; this is for 5.1.67), so I wanted to update this a little since I’ve built it entirely from the command-line this time (as well as highlight a couple problems/solutions – which I’ll cover in a subsequent troubleshooting post). This process it quite similar to my steps for building MariaDB 5.5 and MariaDB 10.0, however it’s slightly different since 5.1 requires you run the configure.js script before running cmake. Aside from that though, things are mostly the same.

Here is the full procedure:

Download 5.1.67 MariaDB source and extract to C:\mysql\mariadb-5.1.67
cd C:\mysql\mariadb-5.1.67
win\configure.js
cmake .
cmake …

I mentioned in a recent post (and another recent, related post) I was going to try Visual Studio 2012 Express (as opposed to VS 2010 Express) for building MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.0. on Windows.

I followed the exact same steps, but MySQL 5.6.10 would not build without fatal errors in 2012 (whereas it worked fine with VS 2010). Unfortunately, the fail errors were not too descriptive, so not quite sure what to do yet to fix it. Here is a brief snippet for those interested:

...
Done Building Project "C:\...\bld\sql\udf_example.vcxproj" (default targets).
Done Building Project "C:\...\bld\ALL_BUILD.vcxproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.
Done Building Project "c:\...\bld\package.vcxproj" (default targets) -- FAILED.
...
Build FAILED.
...

"c:\mysql\mysql-5.6.10\bld\package.vcxproj" (default target) (1) -> …