trouble installing MySQLdb (cygwin) + Bonus question

[David Robinow]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Matthew Roth <mgroth86 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 9:34 pm, John Nagle <na... at animats.com> wrote:
...
>>     You can install a MySQL server under Windows, and talk to the server
>> from the Cygwin environment.  That's a useful way to test.
>>
>>                                         John Nagle
>
> Right, that is precisely what I have. I am able to talk to it from
> cygwin, however, during the installing of the MySQLdb module it cannot
> find the mysql_config. This is because It is not installed? The setup
> sees that I am on a posix system not windows, as python is installed
> in cygwin, a virtual posix system. I am trying to bulid a mysql client
> from source for cygwin, however, I am running into an error there.
>
> Unless, can I talk to the windows mysql_config? if so, what does that
> look like
 The obvious answer is to use a Windows python. You haven't explained
why you think you need to run a cygwin python. Can you explain that?