Tools that were used to create MySQL


The article lists some of the tools that have been used to create MySQL. This is an important list which has helped mould what MySQl is today.

Free Software Foundation

They helped provide an excellent compiler (gcc), an excellent debugger (gdb) and the libc library (from which strto.c has been borrowed to get some code working in Linux).

Free Software Foundation & The XEmacs development team

They have helped provide a really great editor/environment.

Julian Seward

They are the author of valgrind, an excellent memory checker tool that helps find a lot of otherwise hard to find bugs in MySQL.

Dorothea Lütkehaus and Andreas Zeller

They have helped with the DDD (The Data Display Debugger) which is an excellent graphical front end to gdb).

Updated on: 08-Mar-2021

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