Can't install mysql-python version 1.2.5 in Windows

Question

I have mysql-python v1.2.4 installed just fine on my machine (Windows 8). I am using Python 2.7. I always got this below error every time I try to upgrade to v1.2.5.

C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft\Visual C++ for Python\
9.0\VC\Bin\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -Dversion_info=(1,2,5,‘fi nal‘,1) -D__version__=1.2.5 "-IC:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Connector C 6. 0.2\include" -Ic:\python27\include -Ic:\python27\PC /Tc_mysql.c /Fobuild\temp.wi n32-2.7\Release_mysql.obj /Zl _mysql.c _mysql.c(42) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: ‘config-win.h‘: No such file or directory error: command ‘C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Common\Microsoft \Visual C++ for Python\9.0\VC\Bin\cl.exe‘ failed with exit status 2
----------------------------------------   Rolling back uninstall of mysql-python Command "c:\python27\python.exe -u -c "import
setuptools, tokenize;file=‘c:\ \users\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-utz7of\MySQL-python\setup.py‘;ex ec(compile(getattr(tokenize, ‘open‘, open)(file).read().replace(‘\r\n‘, ‘\n‘ ), file, ‘exec‘))" install --record c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-osy _cg-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" fai led with error code 1 in c:\users\user\appdata\local\temp\pip-build-utz7of\MySQL -python\

I‘ve tried (and none work):

Installing VS2010
Changing Python Path
Using Wheel module (I got Failed building wheel for MySQL-python)
Installing Python MySQL connector. For both Python and C.
Installing mysqlclient
Installing using Exe installer from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mysql-python/1.2.5

Do I miss something? Thanks.

I don‘t understand why do I get a down vote. It is similar to some questions, but I‘ve tried their solution and none work. Please explain the down vote reason if you want to act that way – Aminah Nuraini May 9 at 4:28 — Aminah Nuraini, May 9 at 4:28
What happened when you used the exe installer? – Burhan Khalid May 9 at 4:46 — Burhan Khalid, May 9 at 4:46
It got installed just fine, but then I still fail to install mysql-python – Aminah Nuraini May 9 at 4:49 — Aminah Nuraini, May 9 at 4:49
How do you know it failed? Did you try to import it and get an error? – Burhan Khalid May 9 at 5:24 — Burhan Khalid, May 9 at 5:24
I keep getting the error I‘ve pasted in the question. Can‘t find config-win.h, etc. – Aminah Nuraini May 9 at 5:54 — Aminah Nuraini, May 9 at 5:54

score 0down voteaccepted · Accepted Answer

I solved it myself.

I use the wheel installer from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mysql-python.

There are two wheel packages there. The amd64 one refuses to install on my platform (Windows) but the other one works just fine. I mean the file with this name:

MySQL_python-1.2.5-cp27-none-win32.whl

Then install it by running this below command in the same folder with the wheel package.

pip install MySQL_python-1.2.5-cp27-none-win32.whl

Can't install mysql-python version 1.2.5 in Windows

Can‘t install mysql-python version 1.2.5 in Windows

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