-DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release

This option configures a source distribution with the same build options used by Oracle to produce binary distributions for official MySQL releases.

-DWITH_BUILD_ID=bool

On Linux systems, generates a unique build ID which is used as the value of the build_id system variable and written to the MySQL server log on startup. Set this option to OFF to disable this feature.

Added in MySQL 8.0.31, this option has no effect on platforms other than Linux.

-DBUNDLE_RUNTIME_LIBRARIES=bool

Whether to bundle runtime libraries with server MSI and Zip packages for Windows.

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=type

The type of build to produce:

The option values None and MinSizeRel are not supported.

-DCPACK_MONOLITHIC_INSTALL=bool

This option affects whether the make package operation produces multiple installation package files or a single file. If disabled, the operation produces multiple installation package files, which may be useful if you want to install only a subset of a full MySQL installation. If enabled, it produces a single file for installing everything.

-DFORCE_INSOURCE_BUILD=bool

Defines whether to force an in-source build. Out-of-source builds are recommended, as they permit multiple builds from the same source, and cleanup can be performed quickly by removing the build directory. To force an in-source build, invoke CMake with -DFORCE_INSOURCE_BUILD=ON.

-DFORCE_COLORED_OUTPUT=bool

Defines whether to enable colorized compiler output for gcc and clang when compiling on the command line. Defaults to OFF.

-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=dir_name

The installation base directory.

This value can be set at server startup using the --basedir option.

-DINSTALL_BINDIR=dir_name

Where to install user programs.

-DINSTALL_DOCDIR=dir_name

Where to install documentation.

-DINSTALL_DOCREADMEDIR=dir_name

Where to install README files.

-DINSTALL_INCLUDEDIR=dir_name

Where to install header files.

-DINSTALL_INFODIR=dir_name

Where to install Info files.

-DINSTALL_LAYOUT=name

Select a predefined installation layout:

You can select a predefined layout but modify individual component installation locations by specifying other options. For example:

cmake . -DINSTALL_LAYOUT=SVR4 -DMYSQL_DATADIR=/var/mysql/data

The INSTALL_LAYOUT value determines the default value of the secure_file_priv, keyring_encrypted_file_data, and keyring_file_data system variables. See the descriptions of those variables in Section 7.1.8, “Server System Variables”, and Section 8.4.4.19, “Keyring System Variables”.

-DINSTALL_LIBDIR=dir_name

Where to install library files.

-DINSTALL_MANDIR=dir_name

Where to install manual pages.

-DINSTALL_MYSQLKEYRINGDIR=dir_path

The default directory to use as the location of the keyring_file plugin data file. The default value is platform specific and depends on the value of the INSTALL_LAYOUT CMake option; see the description of the keyring_file_data system variable in Section 7.1.8, “Server System Variables”.

-DINSTALL_MYSQLSHAREDIR=dir_name

Where to install shared data files.

-DINSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR=dir_name

Where to install the mysql-test directory. To suppress installation of this directory, explicitly set the option to the empty value (-DINSTALL_MYSQLTESTDIR=).

-DINSTALL_PKGCONFIGDIR=dir_name

The directory in which to install the mysqlclient.pc file for use by pkg-config. The default value is INSTALL_LIBDIR/pkgconfig, unless INSTALL_LIBDIR ends with /mysql, in which case that is removed first.

-DINSTALL_PLUGINDIR=dir_name

The location of the plugin directory.

This value can be set at server startup with the --plugin_dir option.

-DINSTALL_PRIV_LIBDIR=dir_name

The location of the dynamic library directory.

Default location.  For RPM builds, this is /usr/lib64/mysql/private/, for DEB it is /usr/lib/mysql/private/, and for TAR it is lib/private/.

Protobuf.  Because this is a private location, the loader (such as ld-linux.so on Linux) may not find the libprotobuf.so files without help. To guide the loader, RPATH=$ORIGIN/../$INSTALL_PRIV_LIBDIR is added to mysqld and mysqlxtest. This works for most cases but when using the Resource Group feature, mysqld is setsuid, and the loader ignores any RPATH which contains $ORIGIN. To overcome this, an explicit full path to the directory is set in the DEB and RPM versions of mysqld, since the target destination is known. For tarball installs, ing of mysqld with a tool like elf is required.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18.

-DINSTALL_SBINDIR=dir_name

Where to install the mysqld server.

-DINSTALL_SECURE_FILE_PRIVDIR=dir_name

The default value for the secure_file_priv system variable. The default value is platform specific and depends on the value of the INSTALL_LAYOUT CMake option; see the description of the secure_file_priv system variable in Section 7.1.8, “Server System Variables”.

-DINSTALL_SHAREDIR=dir_name

Where to install aclocal/mysql.m4.

-DINSTALL_STATIC_LIBRARIES=bool

Whether to install static libraries. The default is ON. If set to OFF, these library files are not installed: libmysqlclient.a, libmysqlservices.a.

-DINSTALL_SUPPORTFILESDIR=dir_name

Where to install extra support files.

-DLINK_RANDOMIZE=bool

Whether to randomize the order of symbols in the mysqld binary. The default is OFF. This option should be enabled only for debugging purposes.

-DLINK_RANDOMIZE_SEED=val

Seed value for the LINK_RANDOMIZE option. The value is a string. The default is mysql, an arbitrary choice.

-DMYSQL_DATADIR=dir_name

The location of the MySQL data directory.

This value can be set at server startup with the --datadir option.

-DODBC_INCLUDES=dir_name

The location of the ODBC includes directory, which may be used while configuring Connector/ODBC.

-DODBC_LIB_DIR=dir_name

The location of the ODBC library directory, which may be used while configuring Connector/ODBC.

-DSYSCONFDIR=dir_name

The default my.cnf option file directory.

This location cannot be set at server startup, but you can start the server with a given option file using the --defaults-file=file_name option, where file_name is the full path name to the file.

-DSYSTEMD_PID_DIR=dir_name

The name of the directory in which to create the PID file when MySQL is managed by systemd. The default is /var/run/mysqld; this might be changed implicitly according to the INSTALL_LAYOUT value.

This option is ignored unless WITH_SYSTEMD is enabled.

-DSYSTEMD_SERVICE_NAME=name

The name of the MySQL service to use when MySQL is managed by systemd. The default is mysqld; this might be changed implicitly according to the INSTALL_LAYOUT value.

This option is ignored unless WITH_SYSTEMD is enabled.

-DTMPDIR=dir_name

The default location to use for the tmpdir system variable. If unspecified, the value defaults to P_tmpdir in <stdio.h>.

-DADD_GDB_INDEX=bool

This option determines whether to enable generation of a .gdb_index section in binaries, which makes loading them in a debugger faster. The option is disabled by default. lld linker is used, and is disabled by It has no effect if a linker other than lld or GNU gold is used.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18.

-DCOMPILATION_COMMENT=string

A descriptive comment about the compilation environment. As of MySQL 8.0.14, mysqld uses COMPILATION_COMMENT_SERVER. Other programs continue to use COMPILATION_COMMENT.

-DCOMPRESS_DEBUG_SECTIONS=bool

Whether to compress the debug sections of binary executables (Linux only). Compressing executable debug sections saves space at the cost of extra CPU time during the build process.

The default is OFF. If this option is not set explicitly but the COMPRESS_DEBUG_SECTIONS environment variable is set, the option takes its value from that variable.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.22.

-DCOMPILATION_COMMENT_SERVER=string

A descriptive comment about the compilation environment for use by mysqld (for example, to set the version_comment system variable). This option was added in MySQL 8.0.14. Prior to 8.0.14, the server uses COMPILATION_COMMENT.

-DDEFAULT_CHARSET=charset_name

The server character set. By default, MySQL uses the utf8mb4 character set.

charset_name may be one of binary, armscii8, ascii, big5, cp1250, cp1251, cp1256, cp1257, cp850, cp852, cp866, cp932, dec8, eucjpms, euckr, gb2312, gbk, geostd8, greek, hebrew, hp8, keybcs2, koi8r, koi8u, latin1, latin2, latin5, latin7, macce, macroman, sjis, swe7, tis620, ucs2, ujis, utf8mb3, utf8mb4, utf16, utf16le, utf32.

This value can be set at server startup with the --character-set-server option.

-DDEFAULT_COLLATION=collation_name

The server collation. By default, MySQL uses utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci. Use the SHOW COLLATION statement to determine which collations are available for each character set.

This value can be set at server startup with the --collation_server option.

-DDISABLE_PSI_COND=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema condition instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_FILE=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema file instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_IDLE=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema idle instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_MEMORY=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema memory instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_METADATA=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema metadata instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_MUTEX=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema mutex instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_RWLOCK=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema rwlock instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_SOCKET=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema socket instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_SP=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema stored program instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_STAGE=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema stage instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_STATEMENT=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema statement instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_STATEMENT_DIGEST=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema statement digest instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_TABLE=bool

Whether to exclude the Performance Schema table instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_SHARED=bool

Whether to disable building build shared libraries and compile position-dependent code. The default is OFF (compile position-independent code).

This option is unused, and was removed in MySQL 8.0.18.

-DDISABLE_PSI_PS=bool

Exclude the Performance Schema prepared statements instances instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_THREAD=bool

Exclude the Performance Schema thread instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

Only disable threads when building without any instrumentation, because other instrumentations have a dependency on threads.

-DDISABLE_PSI_TRANSACTION=bool

Exclude the Performance Schema transaction instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_DATA_LOCK=bool

Exclude the performance schema data lock instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDISABLE_PSI_ERROR=bool

Exclude the performance schema server error instrumentation. The default is OFF (include).

-DDOWNLOAD_BOOST=bool

Whether to download the Boost library. The default is OFF.

See the WITH_BOOST option for additional discussion about using Boost.

-DDOWNLOAD_BOOST_TIMEOUT=seconds

The timeout in seconds for downloading the Boost library. The default is 600 seconds.

See the WITH_BOOST option for additional discussion about using Boost.

-DENABLE_DOWNLOADS=bool

Whether to download optional files. For example, with this option enabled, CMake downloads the Google Test distribution that is used by the test suite to run unit tests, or Ant and JUnit, required for building the GCS Java wrapper.

As of MySQL 8.0.26, MySQL source distributions bundle the Google Test source code used to run unit tests. Consequently, as of that version the WITH_GMOCK and ENABLE_DOWNLOADS CMake options are removed and are ignored if specified.

-DENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_SYSVARS=bool

Whether to enable experimental InnoDB system variables. Experimental system variables are intended for those engaged in MySQL development, should only be used in a development or test environment, and may be removed without notice in a future MySQL release. For information about experimental system variables, refer to /storage/innobase/handler/ha_innodb.cc in the MySQL source tree. Experimental system variables can be identified by searching for “PLUGIN_VAR_EXPERIMENTAL”.

-DENABLE_GCOV=bool

Whether to include gcov support (Linux only).

-DENABLE_GPROF=bool

Whether to enable gprof (optimized Linux builds only).

-DENABLED_LOCAL_INFILE=bool

This option controls the compiled-in default LOCAL capability for the MySQL client library. Clients that make no explicit arrangements therefore have LOCAL capability disabled or enabled according to the ENABLED_LOCAL_INFILE setting specified at MySQL build time.

By default, the client library in MySQL binary distributions is compiled with ENABLED_LOCAL_INFILE disabled. If you compile MySQL from source, configure it with ENABLED_LOCAL_INFILE disabled or enabled based on whether clients that make no explicit arrangements should have LOCAL capability disabled or enabled, respectively.

ENABLED_LOCAL_INFILE controls the default for client-side LOCAL capability. For the server, the local_infile system variable controls server-side LOCAL capability. To explicitly cause the server to refuse or permit LOAD DATA LOCAL statements (regardless of how client programs and libraries are configured at build time or runtime), start mysqld with --local-infile disabled or enabled, respectively. local_infile can also be set at runtime. See Section 8.1.6, “Security Considerations for LOAD DATA LOCAL”.

-DENABLED_PROFILING=bool

Whether to enable query profiling code (for the SHOW PROFILE and SHOW PROFILES statements).

-DFORCE_UNSUPPORTED_COMPILER=bool

By default, CMake checks for minimum versions of supported compilers; to disable this check, use -DFORCE_UNSUPPORTED_COMPILER=ON.

-DFPROFILE_GENERATE=bool

Whether to generate profile guided optimization (PGO) data. This option is available for experimenting with PGO with GCC. See cmake/fprofile.cmake in the MySQL source distribution for information about using FPROFILE_GENERATE and FPROFILE_USE. These options have been tested with GCC 8 and 9.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.19.

-DFPROFILE_USE=bool

Whether to use profile guided optimization (PGO) data. This option is available for experimenting with PGO with GCC. See the cmake/fprofile.cmake file in a MySQL source distribution for information about using FPROFILE_GENERATE and FPROFILE_USE. These options have been tested with GCC 8 and 9.

Enabling FPROFILE_USE also enables WITH_LTO.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.19.

-DHAVE_PSI_MEMORY_INTERFACE=bool

Whether to enable the performance schema memory tracing module for memory allocation functions (ut::aligned_name library functions) used in dynamic storage of over-aligned types.

-DIGNORE_AIO_CHECK=bool

If the -DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release option is given on Linux, the libaio library must be linked in by default. If you do not have libaio or do not want to install it, you can suppress the check for it by specifying -DIGNORE_AIO_CHECK=1.

-DMAX_INDEXES=num

The maximum number of indexes per table. The default is 64. The maximum is 255. Values smaller than 64 are ignored and the default of 64 is used.

-DMYSQL_MAINTAINER_MODE=bool

Whether to enable a MySQL maintainer-specific development environment. If enabled, this option causes compiler warnings to become errors.

-DWITH_DEVELOPER_ENTITLEMENTS=bool

Whether to add the get-task-allow entitlement to all executables to generate a core dump in the event of an unexpected server halt.

On macOS 11+, core dumps are limited to processes with the com.apple.security.get-task-allow entitlement, which this CMake option enables. The entitlement allows other processes to attach and read/modify the processes memory, and allows --core-file to function as expected.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.30.

-DMUTEX_TYPE=type

The mutex type used by InnoDB. Options include:

-DMYSQLX_TCP_PORT=port_num

The port number on which X Plugin listens for TCP/IP connections. The default is 33060.

This value can be set at server startup with the mysqlx_port system variable.

-DMYSQLX_UNIX_ADDR=file_name

The Unix socket file path on which the server listens for X Plugin socket connections. This must be an absolute path name. The default is /tmp/mysqlx.sock.

This value can be set at server startup with the mysqlx_port system variable.

-DMYSQL_PROJECT_NAME=name

For Windows or macOS, the project name to incorporate into the project file name.

-DMYSQL_TCP_PORT=port_num

The port number on which the server listens for TCP/IP connections. The default is 3306.

This value can be set at server startup with the --port option.

-DMYSQL_UNIX_ADDR=file_name

The Unix socket file path on which the server listens for socket connections. This must be an absolute path name. The default is /tmp/mysql.sock.

This value can be set at server startup with the --socket option.

-DOPTIMIZER_TRACE=bool

Whether to support optimizer tracing. See Section 10.15, “Tracing the Optimizer”.

-DREPRODUCIBLE_BUILD=bool

For builds on Linux systems, this option controls whether to take extra care to create a build result independent of build location and time.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.11. As of MySQL 8.0.12, it defaults to ON for RelWithDebInfo builds.

-DSHOW_SUPPRESSED_COMPILER_WARNINGS=bool

Show suppressed compiler warnings, and do so without failing with -Werror. Defaults to OFF.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.30.

-DUSE_LD_GOLD=bool

GNU gold linker support was removed in MySQL 8.0.31; this CMake option was also removed.

CMake causes the build process to link with the GNU gold linker if it is available and not explicitly disabled. To disable use of this linker, specify the -DUSE_LD_GOLD=OFF option.

-DUSE_LD_LLD=bool

CMake causes the build process to link using the LLVM lld linker for Clang if it is available and not explicitly disabled. To disable use of this linker, specify the -DUSE_LD_LLD=OFF option.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

-DWIN_DEBUG_NO_INLINE=bool

Whether to disable function inlining on Windows. The default is OFF (inlining enabled).

-DWITH_ANT=path_name

Set the path to Ant, required when building GCS Java wrapper. Set WITH_ANT to the path of a directory where the Ant tarball or unpacked archive is saved. When WITH_ANT is not set, or is set with the special value system, the build process assumes a binary ant exists in $PATH.

-DWITH_ASAN=bool

Whether to enable the AddressSanitizer, for compilers that support it. The default is OFF.

-DWITH_ASAN_SCOPE=bool

Whether to enable the AddressSanitizer -fsanitize-address-use-after-scope Clang flag for use-after-scope detection. The default is off. To use this option, -DWITH_ASAN must also be enabled.

-DWITH_AUTHENTICATION_CLIENT_PLUGINS=bool

This option is enabled automatically if any corresponding server authentication plugins are built. Its value thus depends on other CMake options and it should not be set explicitly.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.26.

-DWITH_AUTHENTICATION_LDAP=bool

Whether to report an error if the LDAP authentication plugins cannot be built:

For information about LDAP authentication, see Section 8.4.1.7, “LDAP Pluggable Authentication”.

-DWITH_AUTHENTICATION_PAM=bool

Whether to build the PAM authentication plugin, for source trees that include this plugin. (See Section 8.4.1.5, “PAM Pluggable Authentication”.) If this option is specified and the plugin cannot be compiled, the build fails.

-DWITH_AWS_SDK=path_name

The location of the Amazon Web Services software development kit.

-DWITH_BOOST=path_name

The Boost library is required to build MySQL. These CMake options enable control over the library source location, and whether to download it automatically:

For example, if you normally build MySQL placing the object output in the bld subdirectory of your MySQL source tree, you can build with Boost like this:

mkdir bld
cd bld
cmake .. -DDOWNLOAD_BOOST=ON -DWITH_BOOST=$HOME/my_boost

This causes Boost to be downloaded into the my_boost directory under your home directory. If the required Boost version is already there, no download is done. If the required Boost version changes, the newer version is downloaded.

If Boost is already installed locally and your compiler finds the Boost header files on its own, it may not be necessary to specify the preceding CMake options. However, if the version of Boost required by MySQL changes and the locally installed version has not been upgraded, you may have build problems. Using the CMake options should give you a successful build.

With the above settings that allow Boost download into a specified location, when the required Boost version changes, you need to remove the bld folder, recreate it, and perform the cmake step again. Otherwise, the new Boost version might not get downloaded, and compilation might fail.

-DWITH_CLIENT_PROTOCOL_TRACING=bool

Whether to build the client-side protocol tracing framework into the client library. By default, this option is enabled.

For information about writing protocol trace client plugins, see Writing Protocol Trace Plugins.

See also the WITH_TEST_TRACE_PLUGIN option.

-DWITH_CURL=curl_type

The location of the curl library. curl_type can be system (use the system curl library) or a path name to the curl library.

-DWITH_DEBUG=bool

Whether to include debugging support.

Configuring MySQL with debugging support enables you to use the --debug="d,parser_debug" option when you start the server. This causes the Bison parser that is used to process SQL statements to dump a parser trace to the server's standard error output. Typically, this output is written to the error log.

Sync debug checking for the InnoDB storage engine is defined under UNIV_DEBUG and is available when debugging support is compiled in using the WITH_DEBUG option. When debugging support is compiled in, the innodb_sync_debug configuration option can be used to enable or disable InnoDB sync debug checking.

Enabling WITH_DEBUG also enables Debug Sync. This facility is used for testing and debugging. When compiled in, Debug Sync is disabled by default at runtime. To enable it, start mysqld with the --debug-sync-timeout=N option, where N is a timeout value greater than 0. (The default value is 0, which disables Debug Sync.) N becomes the default timeout for individual synchronization points.

Sync debug checking for the InnoDB storage engine is available when debugging support is compiled in using the WITH_DEBUG option.

For a description of the Debug Sync facility and how to use synchronization points, see MySQL Internals: Test Synchronization.

-DWITH_DEFAULT_FEATURE_SET=bool

Whether to use the flags from cmake/build_configurations/feature_set.cmake. This option was removed in MySQL 8.0.22.

-DWITH_EDITLINE=value

Which libedit/editline library to use. The permitted values are bundled (the default) and system.

-DWITH_FIDO=fido_type

The authentication_fido authentication plugin is implemented using a FIDO library (see Section 8.4.1.11, “FIDO Pluggable Authentication”). The WITH_FIDO option indicates the source of FIDO support:

WITH_FIDO is disabled (set to none) if all authentication plugins are disabled.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.27.

-DWITH_GMOCK=path_name

The path to the googlemock distribution, for use with Google Test-based unit tests. The option value is the path to the distribution zip file. Alternatively, set the WITH_GMOCK environment variable to the path name. It is also possible to use -DENABLE_DOWNLOADS=1, so that CMake downloads the distribution from .

If you build MySQL without the Google Test unit tests (by configuring without WITH_GMOCK), CMake displays a message indicating how to download it.

As of MySQL 8.0.26, MySQL source distributions bundle the Google Test source code. Consequently, as of that version, the WITH_GMOCK and ENABLE_DOWNLOADS CMake options are removed and are ignored if specified.

-DWITH_ICU={icu_type|path_name}

MySQL uses International Components for Unicode (ICU) to support regular expression operations. The WITH_ICU option indicates the type of ICU support to include or the path name to the ICU installation to use.

-DWITH_INNODB_EXTRA_DEBUG=bool

Whether to include extra InnoDB debugging support.

Enabling WITH_INNODB_EXTRA_DEBUG turns on extra InnoDB debug checks. This option can only be enabled when WITH_DEBUG is enabled.

-DWITH_INNODB_MEMCACHED=bool

Whether to generate memcached shared libraries (libmemcached.so and innodb_engine.so).

-DWITH_JEMALLOC=bool

Whether to link with -ljemalloc. If enabled, built-in malloc(), calloc(), realloc(), and free() routines are disabled. The default is OFF.

WITH_JEMALLOC and WITH_TCMALLOC are mutually exclusive.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

-DWITH_KEYRING_TEST=bool

Whether to build the test program that accompanies the keyring_file plugin. The default is OFF. Test file source code is located in the plugin/keyring/keyring-test directory.

-DWITH_LIBEVENT=string

Which libevent library to use. Permitted values are bundled (default) and system. Prior to MySQL 8.0.21, if you specify system, the system libevent library is used if present, and an error occurs otherwise. In MySQL 8.0.21 and later, if system is specified and no system libevent library can be found, an error occurs regardless, and the bundled libevent is not used.

The libevent library is required by InnoDB memcached, X Plugin, and MySQL Router.

-DWITH_LIBWRAP=bool

Whether to include libwrap (TCP wrappers) support.

-DWITH_LOCK_ORDER=bool

Whether to enable LOCK_ORDER tooling. By default, this option is disabled and server builds contain no tooling. If tooling is enabled, the LOCK_ORDER tool is available and can be used as described in Section 7.9.3, “The LOCK_ORDER Tool”.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.17.

-DWITH_LSAN=bool

Whether to run Sanitizer, without AddressSanitizer. The default is OFF.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

-DWITH_LTO=bool

Whether to enable the link-time optimizer, if the compiler supports it. The default is OFF unless FPROFILE_USE is enabled.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.13.

-DWITH_LZ4=lz4_type

The WITH_LZ4 option indicates the source of zlib support:

-DWITH_LZMA=lzma_type

The type of LZMA library support to include. lzma_type can be one of the following values:

This option was removed in MySQL 8.0.16.

-DWITH_MECAB={disabled|system|path_name}

Use this option to compile the MeCab parser. If you have installed MeCab to its default installation directory, set -DWITH_MECAB=system. The system option applies to MeCab installations performed from source or from binaries using a native package management utility. If you installed MeCab to a custom installation directory, specify the path to the MeCab installation, for example, -DWITH_MECAB=/opt/mecab. If the system option does not work, specifying the MeCab installation path should work in all cases.

For related information, see Section 14.9.9, “MeCab Full-Text Parser Plugin”.

-DWITH_MSAN=bool

Whether to enable MemorySanitizer, for compilers that support it. The default is off.

For this option to have an effect if enabled, all libraries linked to MySQL must also have been compiled with the option enabled.

-DWITH_MSCRT_DEBUG=bool

Whether to enable Visual Studio CRT memory tracing. The default is OFF.

-DMSVC_CPPCHECK=bool

Whether to enable MSVC code analysis. The default is OFF.

-DWITH_MYSQLX=bool

Whether to build with support for X Plugin. The default is ON. See Chapter 22, Using MySQL as a Document Store.

-DWITH_NUMA=bool

Explicitly set the NUMA memory allocation policy. CMake sets the default WITH_NUMA value based on whether the current platform has NUMA support. For platforms without NUMA support, CMake behaves as follows:

-DWITH_PACKAGE_FLAGS=bool

For flags typically used for RPM and Debian packages, whether to add them to standalone builds on those platforms. The default is ON for nondebug builds.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.26.

-DWITH_PROTOBUF=protobuf_type

Which Protocol Buffers package to use. protobuf_type can be one of the following values:

Other values are ignored, with a fallback to bundled.

-DWITH_RAPID=bool

Whether to build the rapid development cycle plugins. When enabled, a rapid directory is created in the build tree containing these plugins. When disabled, no rapid directory is created in the build tree. The default is ON, unless the rapid directory is removed from the source tree, in which case the default becomes OFF.

-DWITH_RAPIDJSON=rapidjson_type

The type of RapidJSON library support to include. rapidjson_type can be one of the following values:

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.13.

-DWITH_RE2=re2_type

The type of RE2 library support to include. re2_type can be one of the following values:

As of MySQL 8.0.18, MySQL no longer uses the RE2 library, and this option has been removed.

-DWITH_ROUTER=bool

Whether to build MySQL Router. The default is ON.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

-DWITH_SASL=value

. This option was added in 8.0.20. Not supported on Windows.

-DWITH_SSL={ssl_type|path_name}

For support of encrypted connections, entropy for random number generation, and other encryption-related operations, MySQL must be built using an SSL library. This option specifies which SSL library to use.

For additional information about configuring the SSL library, see Section 2.8.6, “Configuring SSL Library Support”.

-DWITH_SYSTEMD=bool

Whether to enable installation of systemd support files. By default, this option is disabled. When enabled, systemd support files are installed, and scripts such as mysqld_safe and the System V initialization script are not installed. On platforms where systemd is not available, enabling WITH_SYSTEMD results in an error from CMake.

For more information about using systemd, see Section 2.5.9, “Managing MySQL Server with systemd”. That section also includes information about specifying options otherwise specified in [mysqld_safe] option groups. Because mysqld_safe is not installed when systemd is used, such options must be specified another way.

-DWITH_SYSTEM_LIBS=bool

This option serves as an “umbrella” option to set the system value of any of the following CMake options that are not set explicitly: WITH_CURL, WITH_EDITLINE, WITH_FIDO, WITH_ICU, WITH_LIBEVENT, WITH_LZ4, WITH_LZMA, WITH_PROTOBUF, WITH_RE2, WITH_SSL, WITH_ZSTD.

WITH_ZLIB was included here priot MySQL 8.0.30.

-DWITH_SYSTEMD_DEBUG=bool

Whether to produce additional systemd debugging information, for platforms on which systemd is used to run MySQL. The default is OFF.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.22.

-DWITH_TCMALLOC=bool

Whether to link with -ltcmalloc. If enabled, built-in malloc(), calloc(), realloc(), and free() routines are disabled. The default is OFF.

Beginning with MySQL 8.0.38, a tcmalloc library is included in the source; you can cause the build to use the bundled version by setting this option to BUNDLED. BUNDLED is supported on Linux systems only.

WITH_TCMALLOC and WITH_JEMALLOC are mutually exclusive.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.22.

-DWITH_TEST_TRACE_PLUGIN=bool

Whether to build the test protocol trace client plugin (see Using the Test Protocol Trace Plugin). By default, this option is disabled. Enabling this option has no effect unless the WITH_CLIENT_PROTOCOL_TRACING option is enabled. If MySQL is configured with both options enabled, the libmysqlclient client library is built with the test protocol trace plugin built in, and all the standard MySQL clients load the plugin. However, even when the test plugin is enabled, it has no effect by default. Control over the plugin is afforded using environment variables; see Using the Test Protocol Trace Plugin.

For information about writing trace plugins, see Writing Protocol Trace Plugins.

-DWITH_TSAN=bool

Whether to enable the ThreadSanitizer, for compilers that support it. The default is off.

-DWITH_UBSAN=bool

Whether to enable the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer, for compilers that support it. The default is off.

-DWITH_UNIT_TESTS={ON|OFF}

If enabled, compile MySQL with unit tests. The default is ON unless the server is not being compiled.

-DWITH_UNIXODBC=1

Enables unixODBC support, for Connector/ODBC.

-DWITH_VALGRIND=bool

Whether to compile in the Valgrind header files, which exposes the Valgrind API to MySQL code. The default is OFF.

To generate a Valgrind-aware debug build, -DWITH_VALGRIND=1 normally is combined with -DWITH_DEBUG=1. See Building Debug Configurations.

-DWITH_WIN_JEMALLOC=string

On Windows, pass in a path to a directory containing jemalloc.dll to enable jemalloc functionality. The build system copies jemalloc.dll to the same directory as mysqld.exe and/or mysqld-debug.exe and utilizes it for memory management operations. Standard memory functions are used if jemalloc.dll is not found or does not export the required functions. An INFORMATION level log message records whether or not jemalloc is found and used.

This option is enabled for official MySQL binaries for Windows.

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.29.

-DWITH_ZLIB=zlib_type

Some features require that the server be built with compression library support, such as the COMPRESS() and UNCOMPRESS() functions, and compression of the client/server protocol. The WITH_ZLIB option indicates the source of zlib support:

In MYSQL 8.0.32 and later, the minimum supported version of zlib is 1.2.13.

-DWITH_ZSTD=zstd_type

Connection compression using the zstd algorithm (see Section 6.2.8, “Connection Compression Control”) requires that the server be built with zstd library support. The WITH_ZSTD option indicates the source of zstd support:

This option was added in MySQL 8.0.18.

-DWITHOUT_SERVER=bool

Whether to build without MySQL Server. The default is OFF, which does build the server.

This is considered an experimental option; it is preferred to build with the server.

This option also prevents building of the NDB storage engine or any NDB binaries including management and data node programs.

-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="flags"

Flags for the C compiler.

-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="flags"

Flags for the C++ compiler.

-DWITH_DEFAULT_COMPILER_OPTIONS=bool

Whether to use the flags from cmake/build_configurations/compiler_options.cmake.

-DOPTIMIZE_SANITIZER_BUILDS=bool

Whether to add -O1 -fno-inline to sanitizer builds. The default is ON.

-DMEMCACHED_HOME=dir_name

NDB support for memcached was removed in NDB 8.0.23; thus, this option is no longer supported for building NDB in this or later versions.

-DNDB_UTILS_LINK_DYNAMIC={ON|OFF}

Controls whether NDB utilities such as ndb_drop_table are linked with ndbclient statically (OFF) or dynamically (ON); OFF (static linking) is the default. Normally static linking is used when building these to avoid problems with LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or when multiple versions of ndbclient are installed. This option is intended for creating Docker images and possibly other cases in which the target environment is subject to precise control and it is desirable to reduce image size.

Added in NDB 8.0.22.

-DWITH_BUNDLED_LIBEVENT={ON|OFF}

NDB support for memcached was removed in NDB 8.0.23; thus, this option is no longer supported for building NDB in this or later versions.

-DWITH_BUNDLED_MEMCACHED={ON|OFF}

NDB support for memcached was removed in NDB 8.0.23; thus, this option is no longer supported for building NDB in this or later versions.

-DWITH_CLASSPATH=path

Sets the classpath for building MySQL NDB Cluster Connector for Java. The default is empty. This option is ignored if -DWITH_NDB_JAVA=OFF is used.

-DWITH_ERROR_INSERT={ON|OFF}

Enables error injection in the NDB kernel. For testing only; not intended for use in building production binaries. The default is OFF.

-DWITH_NDB={ON|OFF}

Build MySQL NDB Cluster; build the NDB plugin and all NDB Cluster programs.

Added in NDB 8.0.31.

-DWITH_NDBAPI_EXAMPLES={ON|OFF}

Build NDB API example programs in storage/ndb/ndbapi-examples/. See NDB API Examples, for information about these.

-DWITH_NDBCLUSTER_STORAGE_ENGINE={ON|OFF}

NDB 8.0.30 and earlier: For internal use only; may not always work as expected. To build with NDB support, use WITH_NDBCLUSTER instead.

NDB 8.0.31 and later: Controls (only) whether the NDBCLUSTER storage engine is included in the build; WITH_NDB enables this option automatically, so it is recommended that you use WITH_NDB instead.

-DWITH_NDBCLUSTER={ON|OFF} (DEPRECATED)

Build and link in support for the NDB storage engine in mysqld.

This option is deprecated as of NDB 8.0.31, and subject to eventual removal; use WITH_NDB instead.

-DWITH_NDBMTD={ON|OFF}

Build the multithreaded data node executable ndbmtd. The default is ON.

-DWITH_NDB_DEBUG={ON|OFF}

Enable building the debug versions of the NDB Cluster binaries. This is OFF by default.

-DWITH_NDB_JAVA={ON|OFF}

Enable building NDB Cluster with Java support, including support for ClusterJ (see MySQL NDB Cluster Connector for Java).

This option is ON by default. If you do not wish to compile NDB Cluster with Java support, you must disable it explicitly by specifying -DWITH_NDB_JAVA=OFF when running CMake. Otherwise, if Java cannot be found, configuration of the build fails.

-DWITH_NDB_PORT=port

Causes the NDB Cluster management server (ndb_mgmd) that is built to use this port by default. If this option is unset, the resulting management server tries to use port 1186 by default.

-DWITH_NDB_TEST={ON|OFF}

If enabled, include a set of NDB API test programs. The default is OFF.

-DWITH_PLUGIN_NDBCLUSTER={ON|OFF}

For ; may not always work as expected. This option was removed in NDB 8.0.31; use WITH_NDB instead to build MySQL NDB Cluster. (NDB 8.0.30 and earlier: Use WITH_NDBCLUSTER.)