I have been trying for awhile now to get MySQLdb working. I am currently
getting this error:

Starting python:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File
"build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/MySQLdb/init.py", line 19, in File
"build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/_mysql.py", line 7, in File
"build/bdist.macosx-10.7-intel/egg/_mysql.py", line 6, in bootstrap
ImportError:
dlopen(/Users/username/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg-tmp/_mysql.so,
2): Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib
Referenced from:
/Users/username/.python-eggs/MySQL_python-1.2.3-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg-tmp/_mysql.so
Reason: image not found

Anyone know what I need to do in order to correct these errors.

Thanks

On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:53:31 -0500, David George wrote:

Sounds like you need to either:

a) locate a copy of libmysqlclient.18.dylib on your disk and put a link
to it in /usr/local/lib/, or

b) install a MAC OSX 10.7 build of libmysqlclient.18.dylib in /usr/local/
lib, or

c) get the source of libmysqlclient.18.dylib, compile it and install it
in /usr/local/lib

but those are just my best guess from the error messages, someone with
experience of mysql on MAC OSX 10.7 might have more useful suggestions.

Rgds

Denis McMahon