On Jan 25, 6:20 pm, David Robinow <drobi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Matthew Roth <mgrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 25, 9:34 pm, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > ... > >> You can install a MySQL server under Windows, and talk to the server > >> from the Cygwin environment. That's a useful way to test. > > >> John Nagle > > > Right, that is precisely what I have. I am able to talk to it from > > cygwin, however, during the installing of the MySQLdb module it cannot > > find the mysql_config. This is because It is not installed? The setup > > sees that I am on a posix system not windows, as python is installed > > in cygwin, a virtual posix system. I am trying to bulid a mysql client > > from source for cygwin, however, I am running into an error there. > > > Unless, can I talk to the windows mysql_config? if so, what does that > > look like > > The obvious answer is to use a Windows python. You haven't explained > why you think you need to run a cygwin python. Can you explain that?
Good question. There isn't a solid explanation. heretofore, I have been using a lot of bash scripting in combination with awk sed and some perl. I was directed to look into python. My tasks were becoming increasingly complex and memory intensive. I started with a desire to connect to a mysql server. For that I needed to install the MySQLdb module. I am having difficultly in acomplishment of this task. I suppose for the time it has taken, using windows python would have been the simpler route. Anyway, I have done some tinkering and have moved passed the mysql_config problem. Thanks to Davids reminder that I have mysql on windows. Meaning when setup.py called setup_posix.py It was essentially calling mysql_config. Well mysql_config was in a far off folder. I setup a symbolic link and that worked. However I was then presented with a new problem. In direct relation to that far off folder. Dreaded spaces. (i headed the log) -- running build running build_py copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6/MySQLdb running build_ext building '_mysql' extension creating build/temp.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6 gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict- prototypes -Dversion_info=(1,2,3,'final' ,0) -D__version__=1.2.3 -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c _mysql.c -o build/ temp.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6/_mysql. o "-I/cygdrive/c/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.5/include" "/MT" "/Zi" "/O2" "/Ob1" "/D" "NDEBUG" "- DDBUG_OFF" gcc: "-I/cygdrive/c/Program: No such file or directory -- there is much more, but obviously the problem is " gcc: "-I/cygdrive/c/ Program: No such file or directory" what I need to do is have it point to /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/MySQL/ MySQL\ Server\ 5.5/include and not cygdrive/c/Program Files/MySQL/ MySQL Server 5.5/include. I am currently trying to track that down. I think I am going to leave work and go grab some dinner. perhaps I will solve this later tonight. Best, Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
