Tag: mysql

Install mysqlclient for Django 1.10 on macOS

I was trying to get a fresh Django 1.10 project setup on macOS Sierra using MySQL and Python 3.5 in a venv but pip install mysqlclient was failing with the error:

ld: library not found for -lssl

clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

error: command 'clang' failed with exit status 1

As is often the case after some searching I came into the solution on Stack Overflow. mysqlclient needs to link against the homebrew version of openssl I have installed:

env LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib" pip install mysqlclient

The solution post also mentions that installing the xcode command line tools via:

xcode-select --install

will provide the required ssl libs for the system installed version of python (2.7 on Sierra), it will not work for python in a virtual environment.

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