@jtmuhone I would also very much love your thoughts what you think about this, as an alt to your #229..

Is the MacOS binary file downloaded from homebrew? The homebrew binary is not statically linked. See https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/mariadb.json, there is a dependency to openssl and the binary wont work without installing it. I couldn't find a statically linked binary, and thats why I compiled the binaries myself. It wasn't easy, since I don't have a Mac.

@jtmuhone that is good point, we may want document it as necessary external dependency similar to libncurses.so.5 in fedora (documented), libaio1 in ubuntu and visual c++ library 2013 in windows environments.

@vorburger what do you think?

The openssl requirement is homebrew related and needs to be installed using homebrew. My co-worker, who tested my PR got this error message while I was using a binary downloaded from homebrew:

dyld: Library not loaded: @@HOMEBREW_PREFIX@@/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/kolsa/dev/tests/MariaDB4j/mariaDB4j/target/MariaDB4jSpringServiceOverrideBySpringValueTest/baseDir/bin/mysqld
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

I'm pretty sure, that you can't use the homebrew binary.

@jtmuhone, @vorburger So can we skip the Mac from dynamic package?

Also, at least where I work, our build hosts don't have universal Internet access.