Python 3.7, Failed building wheel for MySql-Python

Question

I am new to the python and I am trying Django framework that involves some MySQL and got into this error when I was trying to do pip install mysqlclient and down the lines of cmd messages, I am getting the following.

Failed building wheel for mysqlclient

  Running setup.py clean for mysqlclient

Failed to build mysqlclient

Installing collected packages: mysqlclient

  Running setup.py install for mysqlclient ... error

    Complete output from command c:\users\ronanl~1\envs\py1\scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\RONANL~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-pkbqy3t3\\mysqlclient\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\RONANL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-moxwf7lu\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers c:\users\ronanl~1\envs\py1\include\site\python3.7\mysqlclient:

    running install

    running build

    running build_py

    creating build

    creating build\lib.win32-3.7

    copying _mysql_exceptions.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7

    creating build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb

    copying MySQLdb\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb

    copying MySQLdb\compat.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb

    copying MySQLdb\connections.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb

    copying MySQLdb\converters.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb

    copying MySQLdb\cursors.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb

    copying MySQLdb\release.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb

    copying MySQLdb\times.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb

    creating build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants

    copying MySQLdb\constants\__init__.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants

    copying MySQLdb\constants\CLIENT.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants

    copying MySQLdb\constants\CR.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants

    copying MySQLdb\constants\ER.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants

    copying MySQLdb\constants\FIELD_TYPE.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants

    copying MySQLdb\constants\FLAG.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants

    copying MySQLdb\constants\REFRESH.py -> build\lib.win32-3.7\MySQLdb\constants

    running build_ext

    building '_mysql' extension

    creating build\temp.win32-3.7

    creating build\temp.win32-3.7\Release

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\bin\HostX86\x86\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /W3 /GL /DNDEBUG /MD -Dversion_info=(1,3,13,'final',0) -D__version__=1.3.13 "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Connector C 6.1\include" "-Ic:\users\ronan lina\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\include" "-Ic:\users\ronan lina\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\ATLMFC\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.14.26428\include" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.6.1\include\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\ucrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\shared" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\um" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\winrt" "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.17134.0\cppwinrt" /Tc_mysql.c /Fobuild\temp.win32-3.7\Release\_mysql.obj /Zl

    _mysql.c

    _mysql.c(29): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'mysql.h': No such file or directory

    error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\Community\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.14.26428\\bin\\HostX86\\x86\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2

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> Command "c:\users\ronanl~1\envs\py1\scripts\python.exe -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\RONANL~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pip-install-pkbqy3t3\\mysqlclient\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\RONANL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-record-moxwf7lu\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers c:\users\ronanl~1\envs\py1\include\site\python3.7\mysqlclient" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\RONANL~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pkbqy3t3\mysqlclient\

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

I have installed the following library on Ubuntu and after that, the issue got resolved.

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

and then I was able to install mysqlclient using the following command.

pip install mysqlclient

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