Operating Systems Supported by MySQL

MySQL has been reported to compile successfully on the following combinations of operating system and thread package. Note that for many operating systems, native thread support works only in the latest versions

• AIX 4.x, 5.x with native threads.
• Amiga.
• BSDI 2.x with the MIT-pthreads package.
• BSDI 3.0, 3.1 and 4.x with native threads.
• Digital Unix 4.x with native threads.
• FreeBSD 2.x with the MIT-pthreads package.
• FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x with native threads.
• FreeBSD 4.x with LinuxThreads.
• HP-UX 10.20 with the DCE threads or the MIT-pthreads package.
• HP-UX 11.x with the native threads.
• Linux 2.0+ with LinuxThreads 0.7.1+ or glibc 2.0.7+ for various CPU architectures. 
• Mac OS X. 
• NetBSD 1.3/1.4 Intel and NetBSD 1.3 Alpha (requires GNU make).
• Novell NetWare 6.0 and 6.5.
• OpenBSD 2.5 and with native threads. OpenBSD earlier than 2.5 with the MIT-pthreads package. 
• OS/2 Warp 3, FixPack 29 and OS/2 Warp 4, FixPack 4.
• SCO OpenServer 5.0.X with a recent port of the FSU Pthreads package.
• SCO Openserver 6.0.x. 
• SCO UnixWare 7.1.x. 
• SGI Irix 6.x with native threads. 
• Solaris 2.5 and above with native threads on SPARC and x86. 
• SunOS 4.x with the MIT-pthreads package. 
• Tru64 Unix. 
• Windows 9x, Me, NT, 2000, XP, and Windows Server 2003.
  

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