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 …[Read more]