Installing NDB Cluster on Windows Instead, you may use either of the following: For reasons of brevity and legibility, we recommend that you use forward slashes in directory paths used in NDB Cluster program options and configuration files on Windows. 23.2.2.2 Compiling and Installing NDB Cluster from Source on Windows Important 23.2.2.3 Initial Startup of NDB Cluster on Windows DataDir=C:\\mysql\\bin\\cluster-logs # Escaped backslashes DataDir=C:/mysql/bin/cluster-logs # Forward slashes Oracle provides precompiled NDB Cluster binaries for Windows which should be adequate for most users. However, if you wish, it is also possible to compile NDB Cluster for Windows from source code. The procedure for doing this is almost identical to the procedure used to compile the standard MySQL Server binaries for Windows, and uses the same tools. However, there are two major differences: The  WITH_NDB_JAVA  option is enabled by default. This means that, by default, if CMake  cannot find the location of Java on your system, the configuration process fails; if you do not wish to enable Java and ClusterJ support, you must indicate this explicitly by configuring the build using  -DWITH_NDB_JAVA=OFF . (Bug #12379735) Use  WITH_CLASSPATH  to provide the Java classpath if needed. •Building MySQL NDB Cluster 8.0 requires using the MySQL Server 8.0 sources. These are available from the MySQL downloads page at https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/. The archived source file should have a name similar to  mysql-8.0.25.tar.gz . You can also obtain the sources from GitHub at https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server. •You must configure the build using the  WITH_NDBCLUSTER  option in addition to any other build options you wish to use with  CMake .  WITH_NDBCLUSTER_STORAGE_ENGINE  and  WITH_PLUGIN_NDBCLUSTER are supported as aliases for  WITH_NDBCLUSTER , and work in exactly the same way. For more information about  CMake  options specific to building NDB Cluster, see Options for Compiling NDB Cluster. Once the build process is complete, you can create a Zip archive containing the compiled binaries; Section 2.9.4, “Installing MySQL Using a Standard Source Distribution”  provides the commands needed to perform this task on Windows systems. The NDB Cluster binaries can be found in the  bin  directory of the resulting archive, which is equivalent to the  no-install  archive, and which can be installed and configured in the same manner. For more information, see Section 23.2.2.1, “Installing NDB Cluster on Windows from a Binary Release” . Once the NDB Cluster executables and needed configuration files are in place, performing an initial start of the cluster is simply a matter of starting the NDB Cluster executables for all nodes in the cluster. Each cluster node process must be started separately, and on the host computer where it resides. The management node should be started first, followed by the data nodes, and then finally by any SQL nodes. 1. On the management node host, issue the following command from the command line to start the management node process. The output should appear similar to what is shown here: C:\mysql\bin>  ndb_mgmd 2010-06-23 07:53:34 [MgmtSrvr] INFO -- NDB Cluster Management Server. mysql-8.0.26-ndb-8.0.26 3991