error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1. when I try to install MySQL-python package in Mac mojave 10.14

Question

I got an error info when I install a python package MySQL-python:

Looking in indexes: http://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/simple/
Collecting MySQL-python
 Downloading http://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/packages/a5/e9/51b544da85a36a68debe7a7091f068d802fc515a3a202652828c73453cad/MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip (108kB)
 100% |████████████████████████████████| 112kB 4.0MB/s 
matplotlib 1.3.1 requires nose, which is not installed.
matplotlib 1.3.1 requires tornado, which is not installed.
Installing collected packages: MySQL-python
 Running setup.py install for MySQL-python ... error
 Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/n1/h16b3pt554s2sy049z9x3d200000gn/T/pip-install-pA4LHD/MySQL-python/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /private/var/folders/n1/h16b3pt554s2sy049z9x3d200000gn/T/pip-record-msZOoz/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
 running install
 running build
 running build_py
 creating build
 creating build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7
 copying _mysql_exceptions.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7
 creating build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb
 copying MySQLdb/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb
 copying MySQLdb/converters.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb
 copying MySQLdb/connections.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb
 copying MySQLdb/cursors.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb
 copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb
 copying MySQLdb/times.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb
 creating build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
 copying MySQLdb/constants/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
 copying MySQLdb/constants/CR.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
 copying MySQLdb/constants/FIELD_TYPE.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
 copying MySQLdb/constants/ER.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
 copying MySQLdb/constants/FLAG.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
 copying MySQLdb/constants/REFRESH.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
 copying MySQLdb/constants/CLIENT.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
 running build_ext
 building '_mysql' extension
 creating build/temp.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7
 cc -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Qunused-arguments -Qunused-arguments -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -pipe -Dversion_info=(1,2,5,'final',1) -D__version__=1.2.5 -I/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/8.0.12/include/mysql -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.14-intel-2.7/_mysql.o
 _mysql.c:44:10: fatal error: 'my_config.h' file not found
 #include "my_config.h"
 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
 1 error generated.
 error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1

My version of the system is macOS 10.14 Mojave.

• Klaus D.: The MySQL development libs need to be installed on your system.
• True.Peng: How do I do that

Answer 1

MySQL-Python is a python wrapper for the native client libraries, and you must first install them. They are available to download from MySQL's site.