The following has been verified to work on macOS Mojave. If you are new to Vitess, it is recommended to start with the local install guide instead.

Install Dependencies #

Install Xcode #

Install Xcode.

Install Homebrew and Dependencies #

Install Homebrew. From here you should be able to install:

brew install go@1.15 automake git curl wget mysql@5.7

Add mysql@5.7 and go@1.15 to your PATH:

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/mysql@5.7/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/go@1.15/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

Do not install etcd via brew otherwise it will not be the version that is supported. Let it be installed when running make build.

Do not setup MySQL or etcd to restart at login.

Build Vitess #

Navigate to the directory where you want to download the Vitess source code and clone the Vitess GitHub repo:

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/vitessio/vitess.git
cd vitess

Set environment variables that Vitess will require. It is recommended to put these in your ~/.bash_profile file:

# Vitess binaries
export PATH=~/vitess/bin:${PATH}

Build Vitess:

make build

Testing your Binaries #

The unit tests require that you first install a Java runtime. This is required for running ZooKeeper tests:

brew tap adoptopenjdk/openjdk
brew cask install adoptopenjdk8
brew info java

You will also need to install ant and maven:

brew install ant maven

You can then install additional components from make tools. If your machine requires a proxy to access the Internet, you will need to set the usual environment variables (e.g. http_proxy, https_proxy, no_proxy) first:

make tools
make unit_test

In addition to running tests, you can try running the local example.

Common Build Issues #

Key Already Exists #

This error is because etcd was not cleaned up from the previous run of the example. You can manually fix this by running ./401_teardown.sh, removing vtdataroot and then starting again:

Error:  105: Key already exists (/vitess/zone1) [6]
Error:  105: Key already exists (/vitess/global) [6]

/tmp/mysql.sock Already In Use #

This error occurs because mysql is serving on the same port that vttgate requires. To solve this issue stop mysql service. If you have installed mysql via brew as specified above you should run:

brew services stop mysql@5.7