MySQL and 32-bit

[Burkard Meyendriesch]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:45:41 -0800 Justin Hopper wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 10:12, Markus Schanovsky wrote:
> > Hello!
> > Is there any chance to install a MySQL-32-bit-version on
> > FreeBSD-AMD64? The 32-emulation works very fine on Windows XP (the
> > hole OS  runs as an emulation :-))
> 
> There has been talk on this list of a 32-bit emulator for
> freebsd-amd64, so I assume a 32-bit version of MySQL could be run
> through that.
> 
> So there is a 64-bit version of the MySQL server for Linux, but not
> for FreeBSD yet.  Has anyone tried compiling the MySQL server from
> source on freebsd-amd64 to get a native 64-bit version?  My dual
> Opteron box has not arrived yet, so I don't have any way to test such
> a thing, but am VERY curious what a production environment is to do
> about MySQL server on freebsd-amd64?

I compiled mysql-client-4.0.18_1 and mysql-server-4.0.18_1 on my
Athlon64 box:

# file `which mysql`
/usr/local/bin/mysql: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.0.2, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

It works fine :-)

Burkard

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