mysql-python install error: Cannot open include file 'config-win.h'

Question

I am trying to run pip install mysql-python connector but it keeps giving me an error "Cannot open include file: 'config-win.h'".

The installation works fine on my Mac and another Windows machine, but not this one. I have downloaded Visual Studio C++ and tried installing as both 32 bit and 64.

_mysql.c(42) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'config-win.h': No s
uch file or directory

error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\BIN\\c
l.exe' failed with exit status 2

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command C:\Users\Admin1\Desktop\python\virtual\Scripts\python.exe -c "import set
uptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Admin1\\Desktop\\python\\virtual\\build\\
MySQL-python\\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).r
ead().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\admin
1\appdata\local\temp\1\pip-6pmwrd-record\install-record.txt --single-version-ext
ernally-managed --compile --install-headers C:\Users\Admin1\Desktop\python\virtu
al\include\site\python2.7 failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Admin1\Desktop\py
thon\virtual\build\MySQL-python
Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\Admin1\pip\pip.log

Answer 1

for 64-bit windows

• install using wheel

  pip install wheel
  

• download from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mysql-python

  For python 3.x:

  pip install mysqlclient-1.3.8-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
  

  For python 2.7:

  pip install mysqlclient-1.3.8-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl
  

Answer 2

This didn't work for me:

pip install mysqlclient

so I found this after a while on Stack Overflow:

pip install --only-binary :all: mysqlclient

and it went all through, no need for MS Visual C++ 14 Build tools and stuff.

Note: for now this doesn't work with Python 3.7, I also had to downgrade to Python 3.6.5.

Answer 3

well this worked for me:

pip install mysqlclient

this is for python 3.x in window 7 i am not sure about other windows os versions