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) -> …

I just wanted to share my steps for building MariaDB 10.0 on Windows (10.0.1 in this case):

cd maria-10.0.1
mkdir bld
cd bld
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 10"
cmake --build . --config relwithdebinfo --target package

That’s it! The zip file is created right there in bld/.

Hope this helps.