Question

I installed the unixODBC-devel packages via yum. However, I get an error when I try to install RODBC / pyodbc

RODBC error

configure: error: "ODBC headers sql.h and sqlext.h not found"

pyodbc error

Command "/usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize; file ='/tmp/pip-build-3ci8Au/pyodbc/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)( file );code=f.read().replace('\\r\\n', '\\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file , 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-m83SFn-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-3ci8Au/pyodbc/

My system is RHEL Linux version 2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64. Installed the packages as root. What am I missing here?

Answer 1

You need to install unixODBC-devel , I believe, before you can install RODBC or pyodbc.

sudo yum install unixODBC-devel

Good luck!