1. Building Handlersocket

 Handlersocket mainly consists of libhsclient, handlersocket, and C++/Perl clients. libhsclient is a common library shared from both client and server(plugin). handlersocket is a MySQL daemon plugin.
 To build Handlersocket, you need both MySQL source code and MySQL binary. It is not required to pre-build MySQL source code, but source itself is needed because Handlersocket depends on MySQL header files that only MySQL source distribution contains. MySQL binary is just a normal MySQL binary distribution. You can use official MySQL binaries provided by Oracle.
 Since Handlersocket uses daemon plugin interface supported from MySQL 5.1,
MySQL 5.1 or higher version is required.
 Please make sure that you use identical MySQL version between MySQL source
and MySQL binary. Otherwise you might encounter serious problems (i.e. server
crash, etc). 
 Here are steps to build Handlersocket.

* Get MySQL source code

* Get MySQL binary

* Build Handlersocket
  $ ./autogen.sh
  $ ./configure --with-mysql-source=/work/mysql-5.1.50 --with-mysql-bindir=/work/mysql-5.1.50-linux-x86_64-glibc23/bin  --with-mysql-plugindir=/work/mysql-5.1.50-linux-x86_64-glibc23/lib/plugin

 --with-mysql-source refers to the top of MySQL source directory (which
contains the VERSION file or the configure.in file), --with-mysql-bindir
refers to where MySQL binary executables (i.e. mysql_config) are located,
and --with-mysql-plugindir refers to a plugin directory where plugin
libraries (*.so) are installed. 

  $ make
  $ sudo make install

 Both libhsclient and the handlersocket plugin will be installed.

 
2. Using Handlersocket

Append configuration options for handlersocket to my.cnf.

  [mysqld]
  loose_handlersocket_port = 9998
    # the port number to bind to (for read requests)
  loose_handlersocket_port_wr = 9999
    # the port number to bind to (for write requests)
  loose_handlersocket_threads = 16
    # the number of worker threads (for read requests)
  loose_handlersocket_threads_wr = 1
    # the number of worker threads (for write requests)
  open_files_limit = 65535
    # to allow handlersocket accept many concurrent
    # connections, make open_files_limit as large as
    # possible.

Log in to mysql as root, and execute the following query.

  mysql> install plugin handlersocket soname 'handlersocket.so';

If handlersocket.so is successfully installed, it starts
accepting connections on port 9998 and 9999. Running
'show processlist' should show handlersocket worker threads.

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On the client side, you need to install libhsclient for c++ apps
and perl-Net-HandlerSocket for perl apps. They do not require
MySQL to compile.

  $ ./autogen.sh
  $ ./configure --disable-handlersocket-server
  $ make
  $ sudo make install
  $ cd perl-Net-HandlerSocket
  $ perl Makefile.PL
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

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Alternatively, you can use the rpm installation. If your OS
supports rpms, you can use the following commands to build and
install handlersocket rpm packages.

(Server side, installs HandlerSocket plugin)
  $ ./autogen.sh
  $ ./configure --with-mysql-source=/work/mysql-5.1.50 --with-mysql-bindir=/work/mysql-5.1.50-linux-x86_64-glibc23/bin  --with-mysql-plugindir=/work/mysql-5.1.50-linux-x86_64-glibc23/lib/plugin
  $ make rpm_cli
  $ sudo rpm -U dist/RPMS/*/libhsclient*.rpm
  $ make rpm_c
  $ sudo rpm -U dist/RPMS/*/handlersocket*.rpm

(Client side, installs client libraries)
  $ ./autogen.sh
  $ ./configure --disable-handlersocket-server
  $ make rpm_cli
  $ sudo rpm -U dist/RPMS/*/libhsclient*.rpm
  $ make rpm_perl
  $ sudo rpm -U dist/RPMS/*/perl-Net-HandlerSocket*.rpm