2.1.1.1 General Requirements

To use the NDB API with MySQL, you must have the libndbclient client library and its associated header files installed alongside the regular MySQL client libraries and headers under install_dir/lib. These are automatically installed when you build MySQL using -DWITH_NDBCLUSTER=ON or use a MySQL binary package that supports the NDB storage engine.

This Guide is targeted for use with MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5 and later.

C and C++ language support.  The following table provides information about minimum C and C++ language requirements for compiling MGM API applications, NDB API applications, and the libndbclient library against supported versions of NDB Cluster.

Table 2.1 Language support requirements

NDB Cluster Version	MGM API	NDB API	header files	libndbclient
7.5, 7.6	C99 (GCC 4.5; Clang—any version)	C++98 (GCC 4.8.1; Clang 3.3)	C99 or C++98	C++03 (GCC 4.3; Clang—any version)
8.0, 8.1, 8.2 (NDB 8.1 and 8.2 are Innovation releases which are no longer available)	C++11 (GCC 4.8.1; Clang 3.3)	C++11	C++11	C++03 (In these versions, this is the same as the level of C++ language support required to compile the MySQL server.)
8.3 and later	C99	C++11	C99 or C++11	C++17 (GCC 8; Clang 5)

For information about building MySQL and NDB Cluster from source, see Installing MySQL from Source. For information about building MySQL applications against the MySQL C API, see Building C API Client Programs.