[Tutor] MySQLdb on Windows?

[Jeff Childers]

Danny,

Ah, worked perfectly. So much nicer than those crazy tar.gz files. Thanks!

JC

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Yoo [mailto:dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 5:03 PM
To: J. Childers
Cc: tutor@python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] MySQLdb on Windows?




On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, J. Childers wrote:

> What's the trick for getting MySQLdb running on Windows? After spending
several hours prepping
> this weekend I finally got to the installation/setup instructions that
come with MySQLdb only to
> find the following comments in the setup by platform notes:
>
> "Windows installation instructions: I don't do Windows."
>
> Ok, does this module even work under Windows? If so, what do I need to
> do to get it installed properly?

Hello JC,

Yes, it should work under Windows; you probably downloaded the source code
distribution by accident.  Instaed, you'll want to get the 0.9.1
Windows-specific files.  You can find them here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=22307&release_id=10289
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(0.9.2 is new enough that I don't think anyone has had time to package
them for Windows yet; you may want to contact the MySQLdb mailing list to
see if anyone's willing to do this.  You can probably check

    http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=70461

and I'm sure someone can help you with this.)


People have contributed packaged modules for Windows which can be run as a
regular installer.  Since you're running Windows, you can ignore those
other 'tar.gz' and 'rpm' Unix/Linux specific files.

You'll want to get one of the following files:

    MySQL-python-0.9.1.win32-py1.5.exe
    MySQL-python-0.9.1.win32-py2.0.exe
    MySQL-python-0.9.1.win32-py2.1.exe
    MySQL-python-0.9.1.win32-py2.2.exe

The modules are Python version specific, so you'll want to make sure you
get the right one.  Otherwise, everything should be good.


Good luck!