A simplified guide to quickly fetching, building, and testing the latest MariaDB source from GitHub.
The intention of this documentation is show all the steps of getting, building and testing the latest MariaDB server (10.5 at time of writing) from GitHub. Each stage links to the full documentation for that step if you need to find out more.
Fetch and checkout the MariaDB source to a subdirectory of the current directory
The following command builds a server the same way that is used for building releases. Use cmake . -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug to build for debugging.
(Older MariaDB version use )
You can also , in which case you can skip the rest of the steps below.
Start the server in it's own terminal window for testing. Note that the directory depends on your system!
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sudo zypper install git gcc gcc-c++ make bison ncurses ncurses-devel zlib-devel libevent-devel cmake opensslapt install -y build-essential bison libgnutls28-dev
apt build-dep mariadb-servergit clone https://github.com/MariaDB/server.git mariadb
cd mariadb
git checkout 11.4cmake . -DBUILD_CONFIG=mysql_release && cmake --build . --parallel=8mysql-test/mtr --parallel=8 --force./scripts/mariadb-install-db --srcdir=.cmake --install ./usr/sbin/mariadbd