[Zope] Disappointment with mysql DA under win

[Harry Wilkinson]

cl.exe is the MSVC++ compiler, which I believe setup.py tries to use on
Windows.  If you don't have VC++, you don't have cl.exe :S

Andy Dustman wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2001-09-17 at 19:06, f.stefanelli wrote:
> 
> > a)
> > mysql-python-0.9.0.win32-py2.1.exe; egenix-mx-extension; zmysqlda 2.0.8
> > the installation dir for the first two is c:\python21
> 
> Side note: you don't need the egenix stuff for ZMySQLDA. MySQLdb will
> use mx.DateTime, if it is available, but not with ZMySQLDA. ZMySQLDA
> uses Zope's DateTime.
> 
> > with this I get this error after zope restart (there is the image of a
> > brokenproduct: zmysqlda):
> >     import _mysql
> > ImportError: No module named _mysql
> 
> > b)
> > I download the source of mysql-python (mysql-python-0.9.0) and distutils
> > 1.0.2. I set the path to c:\zope\bin and  i do:
> > python setup.py install (for distutils) and
> > python setup.py build (for mysql-python) at this point after some lines
> > there is an error it says that cannot find cl.exe (I also try to search
> > on hard disk for cl.exe, but nothing)and exit...
> 
> I don't know what cl.exe is.
> 
> Generally speaking, if Zope has raises ImportError on importing _mysql,
> this means that MySQLdb is not installed where Zope can find it. If you
> are compiling it yourself, you must use the same python binary that Zope
> uses when it runs. I assume this is what you are trying to do in the
> second example. The prebuilt MySQLdb probably doesn't install in your
> Zope installation but in your normal Python installation. If you copy
> those files into $ZOPEHOME/lib/python, it should work. You need to copy
> three things: a) _mysql.so (probably _mysql.pyd for windows), b)
> _mysql_exceptions.py, c) the MySQLdb directory and contents.
> 
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