python setup.py egg_info mysqlclient

Question

Trying to install mysqlclient using pip3 on Python 3.6.0

$ pip3 install mysqlclient
Collecting mysqlclient
  Using cached mysqlclient-1.3.10.tar.gz
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Answer 1

This worked for me on MacOS 10+. Rather than directly installing mysqlclient using pip, use this command first

brew install mysql

If you do not have an existing setup for brew, then install brew from it's homepage

Then run

pip install mysqlclient

This should work! Also ensure you have a virtualenv set up for your projects, as it is among good practices to maintain venv's for each project seperately.

Answer 2

Came across this while developing a django-based website, and I needed to set up the website to communicate with a mysql database. I've not used homebrew to do any of my installations.

Since I'm doing the development on a MacOS with Anaconda installed, I discovered that there was an issue with Anaconda. Without knowing the details, I was able to install mysqlclient with conda install mysqlclient

Hope that helps someone else with this problem as well.

Answer 3

Other options didn't work for me, but this worked for me:

For Python3:

env LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" pip3 install mysqlclient

For Python2:

env LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" pip2 install mysqlclient

or

env LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" pip install mysqlclient