Trouble Setting Up MySQLdb Module

Question

I'm pulling my hair out over here trying to set up MySQLdb on my Mac in order to connect to a remote MySQL server.

1. I have installed the latest C MySQL client libraries
2. I have installed XCode 4
3. I did naively try to install the module before installing XCode or the client libraries

I am attempting to set up the module by running the following commands in terminal:

$ sudo python setup.py build

$ sudo python setup.py install

Both of these commands fail with similar error messages. Here is the first stack trace:

running build
running build_py
copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.6-universal-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 -arch i386 -arch ppc -arch x86_64 -pipe -Dversion_info=(1,2,3,'final',0) -D__version__=1.2.3 -I/usr/include/mysql -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.6-universal-2.6/_mysql.o -fno-omit-frame-pointer -pipe
In file included from _mysql.c:36:
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1030:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_CHARP = 4
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1044:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_LONG = 4
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/as: assembler (/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as or /usr/bin/../local/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as) for architecture ppc not installed
Installed assemblers are:
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/x86_64/as for architecture x86_64
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/i386/as for architecture i386
In file included from _mysql.c:36:
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1030:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_CHARP = 4
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1044:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_LONG = 4
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1151:1: warning: "WORDS_BIGENDIAN" 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:1014:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
_mysql.c:2888: fatal error: error writing to -: Broken pipe
compilation terminated.
In file included from _mysql.c:36:
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1027:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_CHARP = 8
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1041:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_LONG = 8
lipo: can't open input file: /var/tmp//ccU6bipK.out (No such file or directory)
error: command 'gcc-4.2' failed with exit status 1

And here is the stack trace for the second command:

running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing MySQL_python.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to MySQL_python.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to MySQL_python.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
reading manifest file 'MySQL_python.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
warning: no files found matching 'MANIFEST'
warning: no files found matching 'ChangeLog'
warning: no files found matching 'GPL'
writing manifest file 'MySQL_python.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg
running install_lib
running build_py
copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.6-universal-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 -arch i386 -arch ppc -arch x86_64 -pipe -Dversion_info=(1,2,3,'final',0) -D__version__=1.2.3 -I/usr/include/mysql -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.6-universal-2.6/_mysql.o -fno-omit-frame-pointer -pipe
In file included from _mysql.c:36:
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1030:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_CHARP = 4
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1044:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_LONG = 4
/usr/libexec/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/as: assembler (/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as or /usr/bin/../local/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/as) for architecture ppc not installed
Installed assemblers are:
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/x86_64/as for architecture x86_64
/usr/bin/../libexec/gcc/darwin/i386/as for architecture i386
In file included from _mysql.c:36:
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1030:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_CHARP = 4
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1044:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_LONG = 4
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1151:1: warning: "WORDS_BIGENDIAN" 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:1014:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
_mysql.c:2888: fatal error: error writing to -: Broken pipe
compilation terminated.
In file included from _mysql.c:36:
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1027:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_CHARP = 8
/usr/include/mysql/my_config.h:1041:2: warning: #warning defining SIZEOF_LONG = 8
lipo: can't open input file: /var/tmp//cchhckGP.out (No such file or directory)
error: command 'gcc-4.2' failed with exit status 1

I have been at this for a few days now and it's starting to drive me nuts. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You've set yourself up for headaches by installing the new and forward-looking Xcode 4 rather than the latest version of Xcode 3 which is what Mac OS X 10.6 was released with. The immediate issue you are running into is that Python tries to build C extension modules with the same configuration that Python itself was built. For 10.6, that includes three architectures: i386 , x86_64 , and ppc (for compatibility with programs build on earlier systems). Apparently Xcode 4 has removed support for building ppc archs. You may be able to get around this issue easily by using the ARCHFLAGS environment variable which is used to override the arch settings used by Python's Distutils when building extension modules. Try doing something like this (untested as I don't have Xcode 4 handy):

sudo bash
export ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64'
rm -r build
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

A better solution, as recommended elsewhere, is to not try to install MySQLdb on 10.6 by using the system Python and the MySQL binary installers. Rather, use a complete solution by installing everything via a package manager like MacPorts.

Answer 2

There is another way that I just found to solve this. I encountered the same problem as you did, and my python's version is 2.7.4, and Xcode 4. Maybe you have just got the python of 32 bits, as I did. So I changed it to 2.7.5x64bit , then there should be no problems.