Question

I know this has been asked several times, but after a few hours of trying, there is no way to make this work.

I’ve installed MySQL 32bits from a dmg file and MySQL-python-1.2.3.

I followed this steps, but when I run python setup.py build, these errors come up:

running build
running build_py
copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.6-fat-2.6/MySQLdb
running build_ext
building '_mysql' extension
gcc-4.2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DENABLE_DTRACE -pipe -Dversion_info=(1,2,3,'final',0) -D__version__=1.2.3 -I/usr/local/mysql-5.5.12-osx10.6-x86/include -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.6-fat-2.6/_mysql.o -Os -g -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -arch i386
In file included from _mysql.c:36:
/usr/local/mysql-5.5.12-osx10.6-x86/include/my_config.h:326:1: warning: "SIZEOF_SIZE_T" redefined
In file included from /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6/Python.h:9,
                 from pymemcompat.h:10,
                 from _mysql.c:29:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6/pymacconfig.h:39:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
In file included from _mysql.c:36:
/usr/local/mysql-5.5.12-osx10.6-x86/include/my_config.h:419:1: warning: "HAVE_WCSCOLL" redefined
In file included from /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6/Python.h:8,
                 from pymemcompat.h:10,
                 from _mysql.c:29:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6/pyconfig.h:803:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
_mysql.c:76: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘MYSQL’
_mysql.c:90: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘MYSQL_RES’
_mysql.c: In function ‘_mysql_Exception’:
_mysql.c:120: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘mysql_errno’
_mysql.c:120: error: ‘_mysql_ConnectionObject’ has no member named ‘connection’
_mysql.c:132: error: ‘ER_DB_CREATE_EXISTS’ undeclared (first use in this function)
_mysql.c:132: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

……

I’d appreciate ANY help you can provide. Thanks!

Answer 1

Try macports:

$ port search python | grep mysql
py-mysql @1.2.2 (python, devel, databases)
Python interface to mysql
py25-mysql @1.2.2 (python, devel, databases)
Python interface to mysql
py26-mysql @1.2.3 (python, devel, databases)
py27-mysql @1.2.2 (python, devel, databases)
Python interface to mysql