MySQL Bugs: #23146: No Mac OS X 10.5 x86 64 bit binary version

Bug #23146	No Mac OS X 10.5 x86 64 bit binary version
Submitted:	10 Oct 2006 17:09	Modified:	17 Nov 2008 21:17
Reporter:	Lance Bland	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Compiling	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:		OS:	MacOS (Mac OS X)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	64-bit, Intel, mac

Description:
The download page lists:
Mac OS X 10.4 (x86)
Mac OS X 10.4, (PowerPC, 64-bit)
but not:
Mac OS X 10.4 (x86, 64-bit)

How to repeat:
See
Mac OS X downloads:
http://www.mysql.org/downloads/mysql/5.0.html

Suggested fix:
Provide Mac OS X 10.4 (x86, 64-bit) MySQL server distribution dmg.
OR, if true:
State that x86 is 64-bit

Thank you for a reasonable feature request. Maybe later, for 10.5, but it should be created.

Is this still targeted for 10.5, or are there any updates as to when this may happen?

Any updates would be greatly appreciated.

Just would like to inquire as to the status of this feature request. Can we expect to see this in the 10.5 build?

Thanks!

I edited my original bug report because I'm no longer interested in Mac OS X 10.4 64-bit version. I am interested in "Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Client" 64-bit version, standalone, i.e.: Not bundled with "Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Server".

Any updates on this issue?

hi-

I would also like to make a request for MySQL version 5.1 for Mac OS X 10.5 Intel 64 bit. Hopefully by the time this feature request gets fulfilled MySQL V5.1 will be out of prerelease.

I'm also extremely interested in a MySQL 5.1.x 64-bit x86 binary for Mac OS X...  Can anyone comment on when this will be available?

It would be very appreciated to receive some kind of comment from MySQL on this request.

The 10.4 version is damn near useless in 10.5 because Apache is built 4-way and runs out of the 64-bit slice (ppc64 or x86_64) on any CPUs that support it.  That means that your latest binary release won't work in any useful capacity on -any- Mac sold since October of last year!!!!!

Please fix this.  The current state of affairs is just plain sad.  According to Marc Liyanage, you can build it (on 10.5) for 10.5 as follows:

MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 \
CFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64' \
LDFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64' \
CXXFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64' \
./configure --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr/local/mysql
make; make install

FYI, it seems that 10.5 server includes a universal build which shows 64bit x86. I'd still like mysql package and support a 64bit x86 version for 10.5.

Please provide OS X Leopard 10.5 64bit binary install, or at least provide the configure and make options for building from source.

Just as a workaround, I got x86_64 to compile from mysql source with the following commands:

MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 \
CFLAGS='-arch x86_64' \
LDFLAGS='-arch x86_64' \
CXXFLAGS='-arch x86_64' \
./configure --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr/local/mysql

The flag --disable-dependency-tracking just speeds up one-time builds (i.e. where you are not modifying source code and re-compiling).

The main thing here is that "-arch x86_64" needs to be passed to the compiler (C and C++) and linker to get a 64-bit build.

One thing make sure you (re)move /usr/local/mysql before installing.

Anyway, hopes this helps.  I haven't played with it, so can't tell you how well it's working, but I do see >3GB allocated in the VM in Activity Monitor, after setting "innodb_buffer_pool_size = 3000M", and the Kind column says Intel 64-bit, which it did not say previously.  Definitely cool.

These binaries are included in both MySQL 5.0 and 5.1.

Just for the record:

- For MySQL 5.0, there are packages for OS X 10.5 on x86_64
  starting from version 5.0.51 (Nov/Dec 2007) including the rebuilds 
  5.0.51a and 5.0.51b (Jan + Apr 2008), and for all versions since.

- For MySQL 5.1, there are packages for OS X 10.5 on x86_64
  starting from version 5.1.23rc (Jan 2008), and for all versions since.