由 dawei 在最新的版本中，windows环境与linux环境下使用一套代码。比如mysql-6.0.4-alpha版本中的INSTALL-WIN-SOURCE文件的描述：
To build MySQL on Windows from source, you must satisfy the
following system, compiler, and resource requirements:
* Windows 2000, Windows XP, or newer version. Windows Vista is
not supported until Microsoft certifies Visual Studio 2005 on
Vista.
* CMake, which can be downloaded from .
After installing, modify your path to include the cmake
binary.
* Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, Visual Studio .Net
2003 (7.1), or Visual Studio 2005 (8.0) compiler system.
* If you are using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, you must
also install an appropriate Platform SDK. More information and
links to downloads for various Windows platforms is available
from .
* If you are compiling from a BitKeeper tree or making changes
to the parser, you need bison for Windows, which can be
downloaded from
the package labeled "Complete package, excluding sources".
After installing the package, modify your path to include the
bison binary and ensure that this binary is accessible from
Visual Studio.
* Cygwin might be necessary if you want to run the test script
or package the compiled binaries and support files into a Zip
archive. (Cygwin is needed only to test or package the
distribution, not to build it.) Cygwin is available from
.
* 3GB to 5GB of disk space.
通过这样的方法，生成项目文件，从而可以通过vs工具进行编译。在先前的版本中，windows下的代码和linux下的代码是两个压缩包，比如windows下的一个软件包名为，mysql-5.1.7-beta-win-src.zip。
这里我选择5.1.7作为分析的对象。
安装代码的步骤：
1.解压缩文件包mysql-5.1.7-beta-win-src.zip。
2.使用vs2003打开项目文件mysql.sln。
3.设置mysqld项目为启动项目。
4.在mysqld的属性页设置命令参数为：--console。这样就可以用debug方式调试代码了。