MAC Os X - Environmenterror: MySQL_Config Not Found

Mac OS X - EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

Ok, well, first of all, let me check if I am on the same page as you:

• You installed python
• You did brew install mysql
• You did export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin
• And finally, you did pip install MySQL-Python (or pip3 install mysqlclient if using python 3)

If you did all those steps in the same order, and you still got an error, read on to the end, if, however, you did not follow these exact steps try, following them from the very beginning.

So, you followed the steps, and you're still geting an error, well, there are a few things you could try:

1. Try running which mysql_config from bash. It probably won't be found. That's why the build isn't finding it either. Try running locate mysql_config and see if anything comes back. The path to this binary needs to be either in your shell's $PATH environment variable, or it needs to be explicitly in the setup.py file for the module assuming it's looking in some specific place for that file.

2. Instead of using MySQL-Python, try using 'mysql-connector-python', it can be installed using pip install mysql-connector-python. More information on this can be found here and here.

3. Manually find the location of 'mysql/bin', 'mysql_config', and 'MySQL-Python', and add all these to the $PATH environment variable.

4. If all above steps fail, then you could try installing 'mysql' using MacPorts, in which case the file 'mysql_config' would actually be called 'mysql_config5', and in this case, you would have to do this after installing: export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin. You can find more details here.

Note1: I've seen some people saying that installing python-dev and libmysqlclient-dev also helped, however I do not know if these packages are available on Mac OS.

Note2: Also, make sure to try running the commands as root.

I got my answers from (besides my brain) these places (maybe you could have a look at them, to see if it would help): 1, 2, 3, 4.

I hoped I helped, and would be happy to know if any of this worked, or not. Good luck.

pip install mysql-python fails with EnvironmentError: mysql_config not found

It seems mysql_config is missing on your system or the installer could not find it.
Be sure mysql_config is really installed.

For example on Debian/Ubuntu you must install the package:

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Maybe the mysql_config is not in your path, it will be the case when you compile by yourself
the mysql suite.

Update: For recent versions of debian/ubuntu (as of 2018) it is

sudo apt install default-libmysqlclient-dev

Mac pip install mysql-python unsuccessful

Please, try:

CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments pip install -r requirements.txt

If it does not work:
First install mysql-connector-c

brew install mysql-connector-c 
pip install MySQL-python

If you are using Windows:

https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/c/

You can also check what happend when you try install it with pip3.

UPDATE:
If you have Linux:
Please open the /usr/local/bin/mysql_config.

And then:

#Create options
Libs = "-L $ pkglibdir "
Libs = " $ libs   -l"

replace with:

#Create options
Libs = "- L $ pkglibdir"
Libs = "$ libs -lmysqlclient -lssl -lcrypto"

Save it and reinstall mysql-python.

pip uninstall mysql-python
pip install mysql-python

For Mac:

LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib pip install mysql-python

should be helpful.

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