15.7.2.2. Installing MySQL Proxy from a Source Distribution

You can download a source package and compile the MySQL Proxy yourself. To build from source, you must have the following prerequisite components installed:

libevent 1.x or higher (1.3b or later is preferred).
lua 5.1.x or higher.
glib2 2.6.0 or higher.
pkg-config.
libtool 1.5 or higher.
MySQL 5.0.x or higher developer files.

Note

On some operating systems, you might need to manually build the required components to get the latest version. If you have trouble compiling MySQL Proxy, consider using a binary distributions instead.

After verifying that the prerequisite components are installed, configure and build MySQL Proxy:

shell> tar zxf
        mysql-proxy-0.8.2.tar.gzshell> cd
        mysql-proxy-0.8.2shell> ./configureshell> make

To test the build, use the check target to make:

shell> make check

The tests try to connect to localhost using the root user. To provide a password, set the MYSQL_PASSWORD environment variable:

shell> MYSQL_PASSWORD=root_pwd make
        check

You can install using the install target:

shell> make install

By default, mysql-proxy is installed into /usr/local/sbin/mysql-proxy. The Lua example scripts are installed into /usr/local/share.