How to Compile and Install MySQL Proxy from Bazaar on CentOS 5.2
Below is a full step by step guide to compiling and installing MySQL Proxy from Bazaar on a CentOS 5.2 box. It should also work for CentOS 5.
First, if you don’t have the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository enabled, you should enable it:
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm
Make sure you have GNU Autotools, flex, pkg-config, and bazaar, as well as MySQL client libraries installed. If not, please follow this command:
# yum install autoconf automake libtool flex pkgconfig bzr mysql-devel
Since the version of libevent that CentOS ships is too old, you need to build a newer one (>= 1.4.0, for better threading support):
$ wget http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.9-stable.tar.gz $ tar zvfx libevent-1.4.9-stable.tar.gz $ cd libevent-1.4.9-stable $ ./configure $ make # make install
Again, CentOS 5.2 ships with an old version of GLib, a newer one is required (>= 2.16.0, for the GLib testing framework):
$ wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.18/glib-2.18.4.tar.gz $ tar zvfx glib-2.18.4.tar.gz $ cd glib-2.18.4 $ ./configure $ make # make install
And Lua 5.1 should be installed:
$ wget http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.4.tar.gz $ tar zvfx lua-5.1.4.tar.gz $ cd lua-5.1.4 $ make linux # make install # cp etc/lua.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
Important: you should make pkg-config know where the libraries are!
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
Now, check out the latest source code of MySQL Proxy and build:
$ bzr branch lp:mysql-proxy $ cd mysql-proxy $ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure $ make # make install
Run it and see if everything is okay:
$ mysql-proxy -V
Done!
