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I'm currently trying to build and install the mySQLdb module for Python, but the command

python setup.py build

gives me the following error

running build running build_py copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-intel-2.7/MySQLdb error: could not delete 'build/lib.macosx-10.3-intel-2.7/MySQLdb/release.py': Permission denied

I verified that I'm a root user and when trying to execute the script using sudo, I then get a gcc-4.0 error:

running build running build_py copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.3-fat-2.7/MySQLdb running build_ext building '_mysql' extension gcc-4.0 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Dversion_info=(1,2,3,'final',0) -D__version__=1.2.3 -I/usr/local/mysql/include -I/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-fat-2.7/_mysql.o -Os -g -fno-common -fno-strict-aliasing -arch x86_64 unable to execute gcc-4.0: No such file or directory error: command 'gcc-4.0' failed with exit status 1

Which is odd, because I'm using XCode 4 with Python 2.7. I've tried the easy_install and pip methods, both of which dont work and give me a permission denied error on release.py. I've chmodded that file to see if that was the problem but no luck. Thoughts?

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it looks to me like you don't have gcc installed, what OS are you using ? –  Paulo Nov 23 '11 at 6:06

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Make sure that gcc-4.0 is in your PATH. Also, you can create an alias from gcc to gcc-4.0.

Take care about 32b and 64b versions. Mac OS X is a 64b operating system and you should right flags to make sure you're compiling for 64b architecture.

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Thanks bsnux, I ended up having to reinstall XCode and created a symlink from /ur/bin to /developer/bin. With both Python and MySQL on 64 bit architectures, I found this did the trick! –  chrisboulas Nov 25 '11 at 3:18
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If you're on Windows, you can use a pre-compiled installer. Check this page for many such installers, including MySQLdb for various Python releases

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