How to install MySQLdb on Mountain Lion

Question

I\'m new to Python and I\'m having trouble building MySQLdb, in an attempt to get Google AppEngine SDK running. I have just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and h

Answer 1

I finally found it says in the ReadMe to edit site.cfg and put the location of mysql_config in there.

Answer 2

It seems that the system is complaining about not be able to find clang, which is included in Command Line Tools of Xcode. Did you installed the tool as well?

Can be installed via

• Open Xcode
• Preference (Command + ,)
• Components under the Download tab

Answer 3

If someone is interested in a quick and easy way for Mac OS X 10.8:

I assume you have XCode, it's command line tool, Python and MySQL installed.

1. Install PIP:

   sudo easy_install pip
   

2. Edit ~/.profile:

   nano ~/.profile
   

   Copy and paste the following two line

   export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH
   export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mysql/lib/
   

   Save and exit. Afterwords execute the following command

   source  ~/.profile
   

3. Install MySQLdb

   sudo pip install MySQL-python
   

   To test if everything works fine just try

   python -c "import MySQLdb"
   

It worked like a charm for me. I hope it helps.

Answer 4

It seems that is not the only thing that you need to do, i check about the cc compiler that is not recognizing, and is not directing to the right file, googling i found that i need to change some files to found it before building, does not stop there, now that its recognizing is not charging the DYDL Libraries... it has been really hard to find a real answer just to start working with python.