[python] mysql-python install error: Cannot open include file 'config-win.h'

I am trying to run pip install mysql-python connector but it keeps giving me an error "Cannot open include file: 'config-win.h'".

The installation works fine on my Mac and another Windows machine, but not this one. I have downloaded Visual Studio C++ and tried installing as both 32 bit and 64.

_mysql.c(42) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'config-win.h': No s
uch file or directory

error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\\BIN\\c
l.exe' failed with exit status 2

----------------------------------------
Cleaning up...
Command C:\Users\Admin1\Desktop\python\virtual\Scripts\python.exe -c "import set
uptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Admin1\\Desktop\\python\\virtual\\build\\
MySQL-python\\setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).r
ead().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__, 'exec'))" install --record c:\users\admin
1\appdata\local\temp\1\pip-6pmwrd-record\install-record.txt --single-version-ext
ernally-managed --compile --install-headers C:\Users\Admin1\Desktop\python\virtu
al\include\site\python2.7 failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\Admin1\Desktop\py
thon\virtual\build\MySQL-python
Storing debug log for failure in C:\Users\Admin1\pip\pip.log

well this worked for me:

pip install mysqlclient

this is for python 3.x in window 7 i am not sure about other windows os versions

Assume you want to install package MySQL-python on Windows, maybe try pip install command with --global-option. See the example command below:

pip install MySQL-python ^
 --force-reinstall --no-cache-dir ^
 --global-option=build_ext ^
 --global-option="-IC:\my\install\MySQL-x64\MySQL Connector C 6.0.2\include" ^
 --global-option="-LC:\my\install\MySQL-x64\MySQL Connector C 6.0.2\lib\opt" ^
 --verbose

For this example, I fully installed 64-bit version of MySQL Connector C in customized location of C:\my\install\MySQL-x64\MySQL Connector C 6.0.2\.

By the way, I noticed that pip install MySQL-python by default always looks into directory C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Connector C 6.0.2\include, even if you're using 64-bit and/or have installed the driver at a different location. I tested on Python-2.7, and I guess this is a bug of either Python or MySQL-python.

Hope the above might be of some help.

For me, it worked when I selected the correct bit of my Python version, NOT the one of my computer version.

Mine is 32bit, and my computer is 64bit. That was the problem and the 32bit version of fixed it.

to be exact, here is the one that worked for me: mysqlclient-1.3.13-cp37-cp37m-win32.whl

I am using Windows 10 and overcame this issue by running the pip install mysql-connector command in Windows PowerShell rather than the Command Prompt.

For mysql8 and python 3.7 on windows, I find previous solutions seems not work for me.

Here is what worked for me:

pip install wheel

pip install mysqlclient-1.4.2-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl

python -m pip install mysql-connector-python

python -m pip install SQLAlchemy

Reference: https://mysql.wisborg.dk/2019/03/03/using-sqlalchemy-with-mysql-8/

This didnt work for me:

pip install mysqlclient

so i found this after a while on stackoverflow:

pip install --only-binary :all: mysqlclient

and it went all through, no need for MS Visual C++ 14 Build tools and stuff

Note: for now this doesnt work with Python3.7, i also had to downgrade to Python 3.6.5

you can try to install another package:

pip install mysql-connector-python

This package worked fine for me and I got no issues to install.