I am new to python and I am trying django framework that involves some MySql and ran into this error when try to do pip install mysqlclient
and down the lines of cmd messages I got this.
Failed building wheel for mysqlclient
Running setup.py clean for mysqlclient
Failed to build mysqlclient
Installing collected packages: mysqlclient
Running setup.py install for mysqlclient ... error
Complete output from command c:\users\ronanl~1\envs\py1\scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\RONANL~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-pkbqy3t3\\mysqlclient\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\RONANL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-moxwf7lu\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers c:\users\ronanl~1\envs\py1\include\site\python3.7\mysqlclient:
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build\lib.win32-3.7
copying _mysql_exceptions.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7
creating build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\compat.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\connections.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\converters.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\cursors.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\release.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb
copying MySQLdb\times.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb
creating build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\CLIENT.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\CR.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\ER.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\FIELD_TYPE.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\FLAG.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants
copying MySQLdb\constants\REFRESH.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants
running build_ext
building '_mysql' extension
creating build\temp.win32-3.7
creating build\temp.win32-3.7\Release
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\bin\HostX86\x86\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -Dversion_info=(1,3,13,'final',0) -D__version__=1.3.13 "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Connector C 6.1\include" "-Ic:\users\ronan lina\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\include" "-Ic:\users\ronan lina\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\ATLMFC\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.6.1\include\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\cppwinrt" /Tc_mysql.c /Fobuild\temp.win32-3.7\Release\_mysql.obj /Zl
_mysql.c
_mysql.c(29): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'mysql.h': No such file or directory
error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\Community\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.14.26428\\bin\\HostX86\\x86\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2
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> Command "c:\users\ronanl~1\envs\py1\scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\RONANL~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-pkbqy3t3\\mysqlclient\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\RONANL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-moxwf7lu\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers c:\users\ronanl~1\envs\py1\include\site\python3.7\mysqlclient" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\RONANL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pkbqy3t3\mysqlclient\
anyone knows how to fix this ?
I installed the following library on Ubuntu and after that, the issue got resolved.
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
and then I was able to install mysqlclient using the following command
pip install mysqlclient