Install toolchain

To build OceanBase from source code, you need to install the C++ toolchain in your development environment first. If the C++ toolchain is not installed yet, you can follow the instructions in this document for installation.

Supported OS

OceanBase makes strong assumption on the underlying operator systems. Not all the operator systems are supported; especially, Windows and Mac OS X are not supported yet.

Below is the OS compatibility list:

OS	Version	Arch	Compilable	Package Deployable	Compiled Binary Deployable	MYSQLTEST Passed
Alibaba Cloud Linux	2.1903	x86_64	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CentOS	7.2 / 8.3	x86_64	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Debian	9.8 / 10.9	x86_84	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fedora	33	x86_84	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
openSUSE	15.2	x86_84	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
OpenAnolis	8.2	x86_84	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
StreamOS	3.4.8	x86_84	Unknown	Yes	Yes	Unknown
SUSE	15.2	x86_84	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ubuntu	16.04 / 18.04 / 20.04	x86_84	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Note:

Other Linux distributions may work. If you verify that OceanBase can compile and deploy on a distribution except ones listed above, feel free to submit a pull request to add it.

Supported GLIBC

OceanBase and its dependencies dynamically link to The GNU C Library (GLIBC). And the version of GLIBC share library is restrict to be less than or equal to 2.34.

See ISSUE-1337 for more details.

Installation

The installation instructions vary among the operator systems and package managers you develop with. Below are the instructions for some popular environments:

Fedora based

This includes CentOS, Fedora, OpenAnolis, RedHat, UOS, etc.

yum install git wget rpm* cpio make glibc-devel glibc-headers binutils m4 libtool libaio

Debian based

This includes Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

apt-get install git wget rpm rpm2cpio cpio make build-essential binutils m4

SUSE based

This includes SUSE, openSUSE, etc.

zypper install git wget rpm cpio make glibc-devel binutils m4