Install fails on MacOSX

[benblamey]

Pip install fails because Clang cannot find MySQL header files when installed on MacOSX. Am I supposed to install the MySQL header files before I can install via pip? (In my case I had already installed mysql via pip)

$ python2 -m pip install MySQL-python
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 will reach the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 won't be maintained after that date. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.7.
Collecting MySQL-python
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a5/e9/51b544da85a36a68debe7a7091f068d802fc515a3a202652828c73453cad/MySQL-python-1.2.5.zip
Building wheels for collected packages: MySQL-python
  Building wheel for MySQL-python (setup.py) ... error
  Complete output from command /usr/local/opt/python@2/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/6y/qj74h7391tb1xcscdbxhnnz00000gn/T/pip-install-kQyOEY/MySQL-python/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /private/var/folders/6y/qj74h7391tb1xcscdbxhnnz00000gn/T/pip-wheel-ioeqXr --python-tag cp27:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_py
  creating build
  creating build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7
  copying _mysql_exceptions.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7
  creating build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
  copying MySQLdb/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
  copying MySQLdb/converters.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
  copying MySQLdb/connections.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
  copying MySQLdb/cursors.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
  copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
  copying MySQLdb/times.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
  creating build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
  copying MySQLdb/constants/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
  copying MySQLdb/constants/CR.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
  copying MySQLdb/constants/FIELD_TYPE.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
  copying MySQLdb/constants/ER.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
  copying MySQLdb/constants/FLAG.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
  copying MySQLdb/constants/REFRESH.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
  copying MySQLdb/constants/CLIENT.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
  running build_ext
  building '_mysql' extension
  creating build/temp.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7
  clang -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Dversion_info=(1,2,5,'final',1) -D__version__=1.2.5 -I/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/8.0.16/include/mysql -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -I/usr/local/opt/sqlite/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/_mysql.o
  _mysql.c:44:10: fatal error: 'my_config.h' file not found
  #include "my_config.h"
           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
  1 error generated.
  error: command 'clang' failed with exit status 1
  
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for MySQL-python
  Running setup.py clean for MySQL-python
Failed to build MySQL-python
Installing collected packages: MySQL-python
  Running setup.py install for MySQL-python ... error
    Complete output from command /usr/local/opt/python@2/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/6y/qj74h7391tb1xcscdbxhnnz00000gn/T/pip-install-kQyOEY/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/6y/qj74h7391tb1xcscdbxhnnz00000gn/T/pip-record-siYdSY/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_py
    creating build
    creating build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7
    copying _mysql_exceptions.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7
    creating build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
    copying MySQLdb/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
    copying MySQLdb/converters.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
    copying MySQLdb/connections.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
    copying MySQLdb/cursors.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
    copying MySQLdb/release.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
    copying MySQLdb/times.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb
    creating build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
    copying MySQLdb/constants/__init__.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
    copying MySQLdb/constants/CR.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
    copying MySQLdb/constants/FIELD_TYPE.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
    copying MySQLdb/constants/ER.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
    copying MySQLdb/constants/FLAG.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
    copying MySQLdb/constants/REFRESH.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
    copying MySQLdb/constants/CLIENT.py -> build/lib.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/MySQLdb/constants
    running build_ext
    building '_mysql' extension
    creating build/temp.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7
    clang -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -g -O2 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Dversion_info=(1,2,5,'final',1) -D__version__=1.2.5 -I/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/8.0.16/include/mysql -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -I/usr/local/opt/sqlite/include -I/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -c _mysql.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.12-x86_64-2.7/_mysql.o
    _mysql.c:44:10: fatal error: 'my_config.h' file not found
    #include "my_config.h"
             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
    1 error generated.
    error: command 'clang' failed with exit status 1
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/local/opt/python@2/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/6y/qj74h7391tb1xcscdbxhnnz00000gn/T/pip-install-kQyOEY/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/6y/qj74h7391tb1xcscdbxhnnz00000gn/T/pip-record-siYdSY/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/6y/qj74h7391tb1xcscdbxhnnz00000gn/T/pip-install-kQyOEY/MySQL-python/