Huge problem gettng MySQLdb to work on my mac mini running Macosx 10.5 Leopard

[geert]

Hi all,

I have a mac mini running maocosx 10.5 leopard I want to deploy a
django project on. My backend is MySQL, and I have it running as a 64-
bit app. Of course, apache2 is also running as 64-bit.

MySQLdb installs with the usual warnings after applying the various
patches I found here and there. These patches consist of altering
_mysql.c and site.cfg.

Basically, my problem boils down to this:

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py", line
19, in <module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in
<module>
  File "build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in
__bootstrap__
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (init_mysql)


Has anyone solved this? I been hunting around for 2 weeks now, and my
deadline is looming grimly on the horizon :)

Geert