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July 1, 2021, 4:35am
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Hi, I thought I would share this as I really struggled in my Mac M1 running Big Sur trying to make this work, for about an hour…
After following Mosh instructions, the server was crashing with a very long error ending up like:
NameError: name '_mysql' is not defined
I was able to solve it with a combination of two solutions on this StackOverflow link:
python - NameError: name ‘_mysql’ is not defined after setting change to mysql - Stack Overflow
First:
So as a full answer:
If you use the python package mysqlclient you still need to install the mysql client from Oracle/MySQL. This contains the C-library that the python package uses. To make things more confusing: the python package is in fact written in C for speed increases. To install this library on MacOS:
% **brew install mysql-client**
And Second:
add this to PATH:
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=“/usr/local/mysql/lib:$PATH”
After this, I restarted the terminal and ran python manage.py runserver again. No issues.
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Where do I need to add that path as I add it it give a syntax error warning ?
For anyone also coming to this section…
This linked worked for me…
Some Specs:
active environment : django_practice
active env location : /Users/samlafell/opt/miniconda3/envs/django_practice
shell level : 3
user config file : /Users/samlafell/.condarc
populated config files : /Users/samlafell/.condarc
conda version : 4.11.0
conda-build version : not installed
python version : 3.9.5.final.0
virtual packages : __osx=10.16=0
__unix=0=0
__archspec=1=x86_64
base environment : /Users/samlafell/opt/miniconda3 (writable)
conda av data dir : /Users/samlafell/opt/miniconda3/etc/conda
...
platform : osx-64
user-agent : conda/4.11.0 requests/2.27.1 CPython/3.9.5 Darwin/21.3.0 OSX/10.16
UID:GID : 501:20
netrc file : None
offline mode : False
using Mac M1 2021 and Conda (no homebrew)
I was stuck on this for 45 minutes! Thanks
so i have a newer mac m1 and instead of:
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/mysql/lib:$PATH"
I ran in my console
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mysql/lib