I suspect they may not have hit this because they were building against the system Python (in /usr/bin/python, /System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/Current) which may have some tweaks to just handle this. I didn’t see this mentioned in others’ post on this. Ld: warning in /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmygcc.a, file is not of required architecture Ld: warning in /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient_r.dylib, file is not of required architecture Ld: warning in build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/_mysql.o, file is not of required architecture

Download the latest MySQL-python package.įor me this failed as follows: gcc -arch ppc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/_mysql.o -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient_r -lz -lm -lmygcc -o build/lib.macosx-10.3-i386-2.6/_mysql.so.

For me this was the “Mac OS X 10.5 x86″ package: mysql-5.1. The following might work:

Download and install MySQL ‘pkg’ format install for Mac OS X.

Though I am using ActivePython, the issues should be the same for a Python from. What follows are the steps (slightly different) that I needed to get MySQL-python to install.

Install MySQL-python on Mac OS X (leopard).How to install Django with MySQL on Mac OS X.Here are some links that discuss getting MySQL-python to build on Mac OS X: Just a quick note on getting MySQL-python (aka import MySQLdb) 1.2.3c1 (the current latest version) to build and install on Mac OS X, because I hit something that I didn’t see mentioned in a number of similar posts.

How to install mysql on mac os x