Detailed tutorial on compiling and installing MySQL 5.7.24 on CentOS7

sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ pcre pcre-devel openssl openssl-devel 
sudo yum install zlib zlib-devel cmake ncurses ncurses-devel bison bison-devel
The following dependencies need to be installed in CentOS7, but not in CentOS6: sudo yum install perl perl-devel autoconf

tar zxvf boost_1_59_0.tar.gz
mv boost_1_59_0 boost

# Add MySQL user useradd -s /sbin/nologin -M mysql
# Download MySQL
wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.7/mysql-5.7.24.tar.gz
# Unzip MySQL
tar zxvf mysql-5.7.24.tar.gz
# Go to the MySQL directory cd mysql-5.7.24
# Precompile cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/mysql-5.7.24 \
-DWITH_BOOST=/usr/local/boost \
-DMYSQL_UNIX_ADDR=/usr/local/mysql-5.7.24/tmp/mysql.sock \
-DMYSQL_DATADIR=/usr/local/mysql-5.7.24/data \
-DDEFAULT_CHARSET=utf8mb4 \
-DDEFAULT_COLLATION=utf8mb4_general_ci \
-DWITH_EXTRA_CHARSETS=all \
-DWITH_MYISAM_STORAGE_ENGINE=1 \
-DWITH_INNOBASE_STORAGE_ENGINE=1 \
-DWITH_MEMORY_STORAGE_ENGINE=1 \
-DWITH_READLINE=1 \
-DWITH_INNODB_MEMCACHED=1 \
-DWITH_DEBUG=OFF \
-DWITH_ZLIB=bundled \
-DENABLED_LOCAL_INFILE=1 \
-DENABLED_PROFILING=ON \
-DMYSQL_MAINTAINER_MODE=OFF \
-DMYSQL_TCP_PORT=3306
# Compile & install make && make install

# Create a soft link cd /usr/local
ln -s mysql-5.7.24 mysql
# Add to environment variables vim /etc/profile
export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH
export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/mysql/lib:$PATH
source /etc/profile
cd /usr/local/mysql-5.7.24
mkdir -p /usr/local/mysql-5.7.24/{data,tmp,logs,pids}
chown mysql.mysql /usr/local/mysql-5.7.24/data
chown mysql.mysql /usr/local/mysql-5.7.24/tmp
chown mysql.mysql /usr/local/mysql-5.7.24/logs
chown mysql.mysql /usr/local/mysql-5.7.24/pids
# Modify the /etc/my.cnf file and edit the configuration file as follows [mysqld]
character-set-server=utf8mb4
collation-server=utf8mb4_general_ci
datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data
socket=/usr/local/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/usr/local/mysql/logs/mysqld.log
pid-file=/usr/local/mysql/pids/mysqld.pid
[client]
default-character-set=utf8mb4
# Create mysqld.log and mysqld.pid files touch /usr/local/mysql/logs/mysqld.log
touch /usr/local/mysql/pids/mysqld.pid
chown mysql.mysql -R /usr/local/mysql/logs/
chown mysql.mysql -R /usr/local/mysql/pids/
# Join the daemon process cd /usr/local/mysql
cp support-files/mysql.server /etc/init.d/mysqld
chmod a+x /etc/init.d/mysqld
chkconfig --add mysqld
chkconfig mysqld on
# Initialize the database. –initialize means that a secure password is generated by default. –initialize-insecure means that no password is generated. mysqld --initialize-insecure --user=mysql --basedir=/usr/local/mysql --datadir=/usr/local/mysql/data
# Start MySQL
service mysqld start

mysql -u root -p #No password is required for the first login, just press Enter set password for root@localhost = password('root'); #Change password