MySQL Shell build on Arm (aarch64)

[Julio Suarez]

Hi,

It looks when you build mysql-server it doesn't also build mysql shell. I tried to clone mysql-shell and build it on Arm because prebuilt Arm binaries are not available.

I've run into an issue, and have a question.

First, I started with the following build command:

cmake .. -DMYSQL_SOURCE_DIR=../../mysql-server -DMYSQL_BUILD_DIR=../../mysql-server/bld -DHAVE_PYTHON=1

It complained about verifying the package year. To do this I added -DPACKAGE_YEAR=2021 as shown below:

cmake .. -DMYSQL_SOURCE_DIR=../../mysql-server -DMYSQL_BUILD_DIR=../../mysql-server/bld -DPACKAGE_YEAR=2021 -DHAVE_PYTHON=1

First question is, what is the purpose of this package year verification?

After this, I hit another issue related to python. I see the following error:

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:146 (message):
Could NOT find PythonLibs (missing: PYTHON_LIBRARIES PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS)
(Required is at least version "3.6")
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:393 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
/usr/share/cmake-3.16/Modules/FindPythonLibs.cmake:310 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
CMakeLists.txt:661 (FIND_PACKAGE)


I tried adding the following:

-DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libpython3.8.so

But see an error that say's "Couldn't detect Python's version.

Anyway, I'm looking for tips/help on how to get this built on Arm.

Thanks.