The MySQL community server can be downloaded from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ the biggest "hoop" is that it as

The MySQL community server can be downloaded from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ the biggest "hoop" is that it asks for an account or registration in big letters, while there is a link to bypass that below the big box. Alternatively there is http://www.github.com/mysql http://www.github.com/mysql and contrary to older versions this compiles quite easily if CMake and compilers are around. (I am on the MySQL engineering team)