error install mysqlclient with pip, library not found for -lssl

Question

I am running mysql@8.x version on my MacOS, I have installed mysql and mysql-connector-o with brew. Currently brew link with mysql.

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Answer 1

After installing openssl via Homebrew I placed

export PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl/bin:$PATH"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include"

in my .bash_profile and ran

source .bash_profile

and then

pip install mysqlclient

Answer 2

As jordanm pointed it out, the issue was exactly with the missing openssl libraries, for which I followed these steps to fix my issue -

1. Installing openssl

   brew install openssl
   

2. Now pip install mysqlclient should work.

   If it doesn't and still shows the same error library not found for -lssl, you could also try to link against brew's openssl:

   env LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" pip install mysqlclient
   

   if this still does not work, you might need to use the --no-cache option of pip, e.g.

   env LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" pip --no-cache install mysqlclient