Question

MySQL provides a script for initialiazing a new data directory for databases storage.

Unfortunately, on the noinstall zip for Windows, it is only a Perl script.

I’d like to initialize a new data directory without using Perl, since I’m building an auto-install to be launched from several machines and I want to reduce the softwares installation duty.

Is there a workaround for this script that does not require to have Perl installed ?

Answer 1

As stated on the MySQL doc, you can just copy the data dir from the MySQL zip wherever you want.

Then you will just need either launch mysqld using the --datadir=new_path option, or specify datadir=new_path in the my.ini/my.cnf you’ll be using.