[Pythonmac-SIG] MySQL-python build instructions

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Tue Apr 5 08:42:25 CEST 2005


I've built MySQL-python, go fetch it from http://pythonmac.org/packages/

Note that it fails three of the tests it ships with, I don't know why, 
and I don't really care.  I've never trusted MySQL-python, for reasons 
like this, but people seem to use it anyway.

If you need/want to build it yourself:

- Install egenix-mx-base
- Get the installer from mysql.com
- Install MySQL
- Do the following (because the setup.py in MySQL-python is dumb)::

	cd /usr/local/mysql/include
	sudo ln -s . mysql
	cd /usr/local/mysql/lib
	sudo ln -s . mysql

- Invoke setup.py like this:

	env PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH sudo python setup.py install

That should work.

-bob



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