2.1.5. Installation Layouts
This section describes the default layout of the directories
created by installing binary or source distributions provided by
MySQL AB. A distribution provided by another vendor might use a
layout different from those shown here.
For MySQL 5.1 on Windows, the default installation
directory is C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server
5.1. (Some Windows users prefer to
install in C:\mysql, the directory that
formerly was used as the default. However, the layout of the
subdirectories remains the same.) The installation directory has
the following subdirectories:
Installations created from MySQL AB's Linux RPM distributions
result in files under the following system directories:
On Unix, a tar file binary distribution is
installed by unpacking it at the installation location you
choose (typically /usr/local/mysql) and
creates the following directories in that location:
A source distribution is installed after you configure and
compile it. By default, the installation step installs files
under /usr/local, in the following
subdirectories:
Within its installation directory, the layout of a source
installation differs from that of a binary installation in the
following ways:
The mysqld server is installed in the
libexec directory rather than in the
bin directory.
The data directory is var rather than
data.
mysql_install_db is installed in the
bin directory rather than in the
scripts directory.
The header file and library directories are
include/mysql and
lib/mysql rather than
include and lib.
You can create your own binary installation from a compiled
source distribution by executing the
scripts/make_binary_distribution script
from the top directory of the source distribution.
