Install mysqlclient for Django Python on Mac OS X Sierra

Question

I have already installed

• Python 2.7.13
• Django 1.11
• MySQL 5.7.17

I want use MySQL with Django, but after install mysql connect

Answer 1

Install mysql using brew and add it to the path:

$ brew install mysql

$ export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/local/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib

$ pip install mysqlclient

Answer 2

I have encountered this problem too，below is my step：

1.brew install mysql-connector-c

2.pip install mysqlclient

and then encountered this error,i have Traced the source code，but solved this one then the other error occured.

so i changed the way to install mysqlclient,just :

1.brew install mysql

2.pip install mysqlclient

this worked for me,no any errors occured.

Answer 3

Install mysql-client instead of mysql if you don't plan to have mysql in your computer

brew install mysql-client

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/mysql-client/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

source ~/.bash_profile

pip install mysqlclient

export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"

export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"

Answer 4

For Mac: first download Xcode from App Store and MySqlWorkbench from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

Run the following commands in terminal,

$ brew install mysql

$ export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/MySQLWorkbench.app/Contents/MacOS

$ xcode-select --install

$ pip install mysqlclient

Answer 5

I needed the following to build / install mysqlclient

brew install mysql-client
# mysql-client is not on the `PATH` by default
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/mysql-client/bin:$PATH"
# openssl is not on the link path by default
export LIBRARY_PATH="$LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/"

Then I could pip wheel mysqlclient / pip install mysqlclient successfully

Answer 6

brew install/upgrade/reinstall mysql
brew install mysql-client
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/bin:$PATH"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"
pip install mysqlclient
works perfectly