Compiling and Installing Percona XtraBackup 8.0 on Aarch64 (Kylin v10)

Background : The official upstream does not provide a pre‑built binary for the ARM architecture, so the article demonstrates compiling Percona XtraBackup from source.

Environment preparation : The target machine runs Kylin v10 on an aarch64 CPU with kernel 4.19.90‑17.5.

# uname -a
Linux wx-test 4.19.90-17.5.ky10.aarch64 #1 SMP Fri Aug 7 13:35:33 CST 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Kylin Linux Advanced Server"
VERSION="V10 (Tercel)"
ID="kylin"
VERSION_ID="V10"
PRETTY_NAME="Kylin Linux Advanced Server V10 (Tercel)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;31"

Source acquisition and initial setup : Download the XtraBackup source tarball, extract it, and create a dedicated build directory.

# ll
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-rw-rw-r-- 1 dba dba 298154792 6月 27 14:18 percona-xtrabackup-8.0.27-19.tar.gz
# tar xf percona-xtrabackup-8.0.27-19.tar.gz
# cd percona-xtrabackup-8.0.27-19
# mkdir build
# cd build

Installing required packages via yum :

# yum install openssl-devel libaio libaio-devel automake autoconf \
  bison libtool ncurses-devel libgcrypt-devel libev-devel libcurl-devel zlib-devel \
  vim-common libcurl-devel libudev-devel

Installing a newer GCC toolset (gcc‑toolset‑11) because XtraBackup requires gcc >= 5.3:

# yum -y install kylin-release scl-utils scl-utils-build
# yum -y install gcc-toolset-11-gcc
# yum -y install gcc-toolset-11-gcc-c++

If the repository does not contain gcc-toolset , add an external CentOS 8 repo or download the RPM manually (e.g., from Alibaba Cloud).

Enable the toolset for the current session:

source /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-11/enable
source scl_source enable gcc-toolset-11
# gcc -v   # verify version 11.2.1

Compiling XtraBackup : Run cmake , using an offline Boost package if the machine cannot access the internet.

# cmake3 -DDOWNLOAD_BOOST=ON -DWITH_BOOST=./ -DBUILD_CONFIG=xtrabackup_release -DWITH_MAN_PAGES=OFF ..
# (offline) tar xf boost_1_73_0.tar.bz2
# cmake3 -DWITH_BOOST=./boost_1_73_0 -DDOWNLOAD_BOOST=OFF -DBUILD_CONFIG=xtrabackup_release -DWITH_MAN_PAGES=OFF ..

Configuration completes and generates build files in /home/dba/percona-xtrabackup-8.0.27-19/build .

Building with parallel jobs (adjust -j to the number of CPU cores):

# make -j22

Typical warnings may appear (e.g., string truncation), but the build usually succeeds.

Installation and verification:

# make install
# /usr/local/xtrabackup/bin/xtrabackup --version
xtrabackup version 8.0.27-19 based on MySQL server 8.0.27 Linux (aarch64)

Notes : The compilation step can fail due to missing dependencies that vary by environment; consult the error messages and install the required libraries. The make step is generally stable, but unexpected issues may still arise and should be addressed case‑by‑case.