June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
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Appendix D. Porting to Other Systems
This appendix will help you port MySQL to other operationg systems. Do check the list of currently supported operating systems first. See Section 2.2.2. If you have created a new port of MySQL, please let us know so that we can list it here and on our web site (http://www.mysql.com/), recommending it to other users.
Note: If you create a new port of MySQL, you are free to copy and distribute it under the GPL license, but it does not make you a copyright holder of MySQL.
A working Posix thread library is needed for the server. On Solaris 2.5 we use Sun PThreads (the native thread support in 2.4 and earlier versions is not good enough) and on Linux we use LinuxThreads by Xavier Leroy, Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr.
The hard part of porting to a new Unix variant without good native
thread support is probably to port MIT-pthreads. See
mit-pthreads/README and Programming POSIX Threads
(http://www.humanfactor.com/pthreads/).
The MySQL distribution includes a patched version of Provenzano’s Pthreads from MIT (see the MIT Pthreads web page at http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/proven/pthreads.html). This can be used for some operating systems that do not have POSIX threads.
It is also possible to use another user-level thread package named FSU Pthreads (see http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/pthreads.htmlFSU, the Pthreads home page). This implementation is being used for the SCO port.
See the thr_lock.c and thr_alarm.c programs in the mysys directory for some ...
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