Today’s topic is related primarily to compiling MySQL from source using CMAKE and what kind of issues we encounter during this task. We want to install MySQL 5.6.19 with Debug+Valgrind etc. On CentOS 7 here are my dependency packages start point:

[root@centos-base ~]# yum install zlib zlib-devel openssl openssl-devel valgrind valgrind-devel cmake gcc cpp ncurses ncurses-devel

Here is my CMAKE command:

[root@centos-base mysql-5.6.19]# cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/mysql-5.6.19 -DMYSQL_DATADIR=/var/lib/mysql -DSYSCONFDIR=/opt/mysql-5.6.19 -DWITH_SSL=system -DMYSQL_TCP_PORT=3306 -DMYSQL_UNIX_ADDR=/opt/mysql-5.6.19/mysqld.sock -DDEFAULT_CHARSET=utf8 -DDEFAULT_COLLATION=utf8_general_ci -DWITH_DEBUG=1 -DCOMPILATION_COMMENT="Shahriyar Rzayev's CentOS MySQL-5.6.19" -DOPTIMIZER_TRACE=1 -DWITH_ZLIB=system -DWITH_VALGRIND=1 -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-DHAVE_purify -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-DHAVE_purify

If you try to run this command first ERROR will be:

CMake Error: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
CMake Error: Internal CMake error, TryCompile configure of cmake failed
-- Performing Test HAVE_PEERCRED - Failed
-- Library mysqlclient depends on OSLIBS -lpthread;/usr/lib64/libz.so;m;/usr/lib64/libssl.so;/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so;dl
-- Googlemock was not found. gtest-based unit tests will be disabled. You can run cmake . -DENABLE_DOWNLOADS=1 to automatically download and build required components from source.

Googlemock was not found -> to resolve this issue add -DENABLE_DOWNLOADS=1 to CMAKE command.

After you will see, it will download necessary package:

-- Library mysqlclient depends on OSLIBS -lpthread;/usr/lib64/libz.so;m;/usr/lib64/libssl.so;/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so;dl
-- Successfully downloaded http://googlemock.googlecode.com/files/gmock-1.6.0.zip to /root/mysql-5.6.19/source_downloads

Second issue you will likely see:

CMake Error: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
CMake Error: Internal CMake error, TryCompile configure of cmake failed

The problem is missing gcc-c++ package, so install it:

[root@centos-base ~]# yum install gcc-c++

Third one is a Warning: Bison executable not found in PATH. Again just install bison package:

[root@centos-base ~]# yum install bison

After all we should say that following packages should be installed on server prior to compiling MySQL:

[root@centos-base ~]# yum install zlib zlib-devel openssl openssl-devel valgrind valgrind-devel cmake gcc cpp ncurses ncurses-devel bison gcc-c++

After getting success message:

-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /root/mysql-5.6.19

Just run make & make install

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UPDATE to topic 5.7.8-rc

With MySQL 5.7.8-rc you will likely hit error like:

-- MySQL currently requires boost_1_58_0

CMake Error at cmake/boost.cmake:76 (MESSAGE):
  You can download it with -DDOWNLOAD_BOOST=1 -DWITH_BOOST=<directory>

To resolve this issue add following to CMAKE command:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/mysql-5.7.8-rc -DMYSQL_DATADIR=/opt/mysql-5.7.8-rc/datadir -DSYSCONFDIR=/opt/mysql-5.7.8-rc -DWITH_SSL=system -DMYSQL_TCP_PORT=3306 -DMYSQL_UNIX_ADDR=/opt/mysql-5.7.8-rc/mysqld.sock -DDEFAULT_CHARSET=utf8 -DDEFAULT_COLLATION=utf8_general_ci -DWITH_DEBUG=1 -DCOMPILATION_COMMENT="Shahriyar Rzayev's CentOS MySQL-5.7.8-rc" -DOPTIMIZER_TRACE=1 -DWITH_ZLIB=system -DWITH_VALGRIND=1 -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-DHAVE_purify -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-DHAVE_purify -DENABLE_DOWNLOADS=1 -DDOWNLOAD_BOOST=1 -DWITH_BOOST=/opt/mysql-5.7.8-rc

You will see something like:

-- Packaging as: mysql-5.7.8-rc-Linux-x86_64
-- Downloading boost_1_58_0.tar.gz to /opt/mysql-5.7.8-rc
-- [download 0% complete]
-- [download 1% complete]
-- [download 2% complete]
-- [download 3% complete]
-- [download 4% complete]
-- [download 5% complete]