Errors When Installing MySQL-python module for Python 2.7

Question

I'm currently trying to build and install the mySQLdb module for Python, but the command

python setup.py build

gives me the following error

running build running build_py copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-intel-2.7/MySQLdb error: could not delete 'build/lib.macosx-10.3-intel-2.7/MySQLdb/release.py': Permission denied

I verified that I'm a root user and when trying to execute the script using sudo, I then get a gcc-4.0 error:

running build running build_py copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-fat-2.7/MySQLdb running build_ext building '_mysql' extension gcc-4.0 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Dversion_info=(1,2,3,'final',0) -D__version__=1.2.3 -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-fat-2.7/_mysql.o -Os -g -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -arch x86_64 unable to execute gcc-4.0: No such file or directory error: command 'gcc-4.0' failed with exit status 1

Which is odd, because I'm using XCode 4 with Python 2.7. I've tried the easy_install and pip methods, both of which dont work and give me a permission denied error on release.py. I've chmodded that file to see if that was the problem but no luck. Thoughts?

Answer 1

Make sure that gcc-4.0 is in your PATH . Also, you can create an alias from gcc to gcc-4.0 .

Take care about 32b and 64b versions. Mac OS X is a 64b operating system and you should right flags to make sure you're compiling for 64b architecture.

Answer 2

If you're on Windows, you can use a pre-compiled installer. Check this page for many such installers, including MySQLdb for various Python releases