"Cannot open include file: 'config-win.h': No such file or directory" while installing mysql-python

Question

I'm trying to install mysql-python in a virtualenv using pip on windows. At first, I was getting the same error reported here, but the answer there worked for me too. Now I'm getting this following error:

_mysql.c(34) : Fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'config-win.h': No such file or directory 

If I symlink (Win7) to my regular (not the virtualenv's) python's site-packages/MySQLdb dir I get

Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named _mysql 

I'm rather at a loss here. Any pointers?

Answer 1

All I had to do was go over to oracle, and download the MySQL Connector C 6.0.2 (newer doesn't work!) and do the typical install.

https://downloads.mysql.com/archives/c-c/

Be sure to include all optional extras (Extra Binaries) via the custom install, without these it did not work for the win64.msi

Once that was done, I went into pycharms, and selected the MySQL-python>=1.2.4 package to install, and it worked great. No need to update any configuration or anything like that. This was the simplest version for me to work through.

Hope it helps