Comments on: Upgrading to Snow Leopard Part 4: MySQL

By: Danilo

Danilo — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:07:35 +0000

I got it working… I was messing with the architecture since I upgraded my python to the latest 2.6.5 version which is 32bit and I didn’t know it.

So I simple downloaded mysql pkg 32bit for snow leopard and for the mysqldb i used:

ARCHFLAGS=”-arch i386″ python setup.py build
sudo ARCHFLAGS=”-arch i386″ python setup.py install

So happy! :D

By: Clark

Clark — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:50:03 +0000

I’d strongly suggest using MacPorts instead of downloading a file.

By: Danilo

Danilo — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:32:23 +0000

can someone help me? when i unttar the file, it doesn’t create or anything like so I can run configure and make command… I always get this:

Danilo:src danilo$ cd mysql-5.1.45-osx10.6-x86/
Danilo:mysql-5.1.45-osx10.6-x86 danilo$ ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/mysql –with-extra-charsets=complex \
> –enable-thread-safe-client –enable-local-infile –enable-shared \
> –with-plugins=innobase
-bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:47:11 +0000

Yeah, well I won’t tell you how well I did in French back home in Canada… I was the kid in honors physics, biology and math and remedial French.

By: Rom

Rom — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:38:48 +0000

Just to let you know that you say “Et voilà” and not “Le voilà”!

Cheers

By: Nivas R

Nivas R — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:49:33 +0000

Thanks for the article, it worked.
Initially i was having problems with the compile – because I had spaces in the folder where I had downloaded the source (the folder was “My Sql Src”).
If someone there is facing issues with the make, it could be spaces in the directory…

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MyMacs - and windows tricks too! — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:13:50 +0000

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By: Michael Kumm

Michael Kumm — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:28:22 +0000

Thanks – this has been on my todo list for a while – thanks for posting – it worked!

By: Seth Gottlieb

Seth Gottlieb — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:47:05 +0000

I learned that there are two solutions to this problem. The one I discovered first is to use the 32 bit versions of both python and MySQL: http://www.zen-hacking.com/2009/09/01/python-mysql-under-snow-leopard/

Then I learned about a better solution: http://www.mangoorange.com/2008/08/01/installing-python-mysqldb-122-on-mac-os-x/?cp=all

Apparently the issue is that the “clean” option doesn’t really clear out prior builds of the software. It is fixed by manually deleting the former build.

By: Seth Gottlieb

Seth Gottlieb — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:26:59 +0000

Things didn’t go so smooth for me. Even with the -arch x86_64:

>>> import MySQLdb
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 1, in
File “build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/MySQLdb/__init__.py”, line 19, in
File “build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/_mysql.py”, line 7, in
File “build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/_mysql.py”, line 6, in __bootstrap__
ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (init_mysql)

By: abhi166

abhi166 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:27:10 +0000

I installed the x86_64 pkg from Sun. Then installed MySQLdb for python with ARCHFLAGS=’-arch x86_64′ python setup.py build/install. (Python2.6)