@@ -8,57 +8,25 @@ MySQLdb Installation
88Prerequisites
99-------------
1010
11- + Python 2.3.4 or higher
11+ + Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 or higher
1212
1313 * http://www.python.org/
1414
15- * Versions lower than 2.3 WON'T WORK.
16-
17- * 2.4 is the primary test environment.
18-
19- * Red Hat Linux:
20-
21- - Make sure you have the Python development headers and libraries
22- (python-devel).
23-
2415+ setuptools
2516
2617 * http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
2718
28- + MySQL 3.23.32 or higher
19+ + MySQL 5.0 or higher
2920
3021 * http://www.mysql.com/downloads/
3122
32- * Versions lower than 3.22 definitely WON'T WORK.
33-
34- * Versions lower than 3.22.19 might not work.
35-
36- * MySQL-3.22 might work but isn't supported anymore. It's very old.
37-
38- * MySQL-3.23 ought to work, but it's pretty elderly.
39-
40- * MySQL-4.0 is supported, but not tested and slightly discouraged.
41-
42- * MySQL-4.1 is supported. The prepared statements API is not
43- supported, and won't be until MySQLdb-1.3 or 2.0, if ever.
23+ * MySQL-4.0 and MySQL-4.1 may work, but not supported.
4424
4525 * MySQL-5.0 is supported and tested, including stored procedures.
4626
4727 * MySQL-5.1 is supported (currently a release candidate) but untested.
4828 It should work.
4929
50- * MySQL-6.0 is sorta-kinda-supported (currently alpha) but untested.
51- It should work.
52-
53- * Drizzle <https://launchpad.net/drizzle> is a fork of MySQL. So far
54- the C API looks really similar except everything is renamed.
55- Drizzle support probably won't happen in 1.2. There may be have to
56- be an entirely different module, but still using DB-API.
57-
58- * MaxDB, formerly known as SAP DB (and maybe Adabas D?), is a
59- completely different animal. Use the sapdb.sql module that comes
60- with MaxDB.
61-
6230 * Red Hat Linux packages:
6331
6432 - mysql-devel to compile
@@ -75,38 +43,15 @@ Prerequisites
7543
7644 - MySQL-shared to run if you compiled with MySQL-shared installed
7745
78- * Transactions (particularly InnoDB tables) are supported for
79- MySQL-3.23 and up. You may need a special package from your vendor
80- with this support turned on.
81-
82- + zlib
83-
84- * Required for MySQL-3.23 and newer.
85-
86- * Red Hat Linux
87-
88- - zlib-devel to compile
89-
90- - zlib to run
91-
92- + openssl
93-
94- * May be needed for MySQL-4.0 or newer, depending on compilation
95- options. If you need it, you probably already have it.
96-
97- - you may need openssl-devel on some platforms
98-
9946+ C compiler
10047
10148 * Most free software-based systems already have this, usually gcc.
10249
10350 * Most commercial UNIX platforms also come with a C compiler, or
10451 you can also use gcc.
10552
106- * If you have some Windows flavor, you usually have to pay extra
107- for this, or you can use Cygwin_.
108-
109- .. _Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/
53+ * If you have some Windows flavor, you should use Windows SDK or
54+ Visual C++.
11055
11156
11257Building and installing
@@ -134,12 +79,18 @@ edit the [options] section of site.cfg:
13479 if True, try to link against a static library; otherwise link
13580 against dynamic libraries (default). You may need static linking
13681 to use the embedded server.
82+ This option doesn't work for MySQL>5.6 since libmysqlclient
83+ requires libstdc++. If you want to use, add `-lstdc++` to
84+ mysql_config manually.
13785
86+ If `<mysql prefix>/lib` is not added to `/etc/ld.so.conf`, `import _mysql`
87+ doesn't work. To fix this, (1) set `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, or (2) add
88+ `-Wl,-rpath,<mysql prefix>/lib` to ldflags in your mysql_config.
13889
13990Finally, putting it together::
14091
141- $ tar xfz MySQL-python-1.2.1 .tar.gz
142- $ cd MySQL-python-1.2.1
92+ $ tar xz mysqlclient-1.3.6 .tar.gz
93+ $ cd mysqlclient-1.3.6
14394 $ # edit site.cfg if necessary
14495 $ python setup.py build
14596 $ sudo python setup.py install # or su first
@@ -168,15 +119,6 @@ On Windows, you will definitely have to edit site.cfg since there is
168119no mysql_config in the MySQL package.
169120
170121
171- Zope
172- ....
173-
174- If you are using a binary package of Zope, you need run setup.py with
175- the python executable that came with Zope. Otherwise, you'll install
176- into the wrong Python tree and Zope (ZMySQLDA) will not be able to
177- find _mysql.
178-
179-
180122Binary Packages
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