Windows Python2.7 mysqldb installation error

Question

I'm trying to install mysqldb for Python. I'm running "pip install mysql-python" and I keep getting this error:

running build_ext
building '_mysql' extension
creating build\temp.win32-2.7
creating build\temp.win32-2.7\Release
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -Dversion_info=(1,2,5,'fi nal',1) -D__version__=1.2.5 "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Connector C 6.0.2\include" -Ic:\python27\include -Ic:\python27\PC /Tc_mysql.c /Fobui ld\temp.win32-2.7\Release_mysql.obj /Zl _mysql.c
_mysql.c(42) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'config-win.h': No such file or directory
error: command 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2

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Failed building wheel for mysql-python
Failed to build mysql-python
Installing collected packages: mysql-python
Running setup.py install for mysql-python
Complete output from command c:\python27\python.exe -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='c:\users\scott~1.sco\appdata\local\temp\pip-bu ild-nja4gr\mysql-python\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install - -record c:\users\scott~1.sco\appdata\local\temp\pip-5htk1y-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile: running install
running build
running build_py
copying MySQLdb\release.py -> build\lib.win32-2.7\MySQLdb
running build_ext
building '_mysql' extension
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -Dversion_info=(1,2,5,' final',1) -D__version__=1.2.5 "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Connector C 6.0.2\include" -Ic:\python27\include -Ic:\python27\PC /Tc_mysql.c /Fob uild\temp.win32-2.7\Release_mysql.obj /Zl _mysql.c
_mysql.c(42) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'config-win.h': No such file or directory
error: command 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2

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Command "c:\python27\python.exe -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='c:\users\scott~1.sco\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-nja4gr\mysql-python \setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), file, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\scott~1 .sco\appdata\local\temp\pip-5htk1y-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in c:\users\scott ~1.sco\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-nja4gr\mysql-python

Can anyone tell me whats the problem?

Answer 1

You are missing Visual Studio C++ from your system or the correct environment for VS is not set properly based on the error in your question: "error: command 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2"

Please check if you have C++ compiler installed at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\cl.exe". If you do not have this installed it is available from Microsoft here: python27 Compiler

If you have VS installed try running the pip install from visual studio command prompt ,which generally would have all the environment created or try to run vcvarsall.bat from "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\" folder

Answer 2

In my case I had to install mysql-connector with the same bitness as my python. So although I run 64bit windows 10, I have 32bit python 2.7 installed so I had to install 32bit mysql-connector from here to overcome the error.