Install gcc? What system are you running on? You need to install two things -- the python adaptor for MySQL and the zope adaptor. In a linux environment I just followed the instructions at Zope.org and everything came up neatly. With other environments, YMMV. I use MySQL-python-0.9.1. and ZMySQLDA-2.0.8 both distributed as tarballs. You do have to compile some C code--hence the need for gcc. Look at the setup.py programs to set configuration stuff.
I just tried and I still can't seem to get it to work it gives me the following message when I run python2.1 setup.py build:
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
Anything else I need to do?
Quoting Dennis Allison <allison@sumeru.stanford.EDU>:
You need to install it in the Zope version of python. Run setup in the ZMySQLDA directory with the version of python you are using for Zope.