Various BOINC tools depend on a Python extension module called "MySQLdb".  You
can get the source here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python

WARNING: currently (2003/08/28) BOINC requires version 0.9.2 of
Python-MySQLdb, however this could be backported to 0.9.1 in the future as
many Linux distributions seem to have 0.9.1.


INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
=========================

Lines beginning with "$" indicate example commands to type in bourne shell.

Lines beginning with "#" indicate example commands to type with write access
to the install location (i.e. su or sudo)

Lines beginning with ">>> " indicate example commands to type in Python.

The `shared module' options build a shared library for the Python-MySQLdb
module that is loaded at Python run-time.  This requires that you have a
shared version of the MySQL client library installed, i.e. libmysqlclient.so.

Debian Linux: shared module
---------------------------
    1. Install
       # apt-get install python-mysqldb
    
    [ 2003/07: if you have multiple Python versions installed you may want to do
       # apt-get install python2.2-mysqldb
            or
       # apt-get install python2.3-mysqldb
    ]

Red Hat Linux: shared module
----------------------------
    1. Download MySQL-python
       $ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mysql-python/MySQL-python2-0.9.2-1.i386.rpm

    2. Install
       # rpm -i MySQL-python2-0.9.2-1.i386.rpm

Other Unix/Linux: shared module
-------------------------------
    1. Download MySQL-python
       $ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mysql-python/MySQL-python-0.9.2.tar.gz

    2. Unpack
       $ gunzip -c MySQL-python-0.9.2.tar.gz | tar xf -

    3. Build
       $ cd MySQL-python-0.9.2
       $ python setup.py build

    4. Install
       # python setup.py install

Unix/Linux: compiled statically into Python
-------------------------------------------
    1. Download MySQL-python
       $ wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/mysql-python/MySQL-python-0.9.2.tar.gz

    2. Unpack
       $ gunzip -c MySQL-python-0.9.2.tar.gz | tar xf -

    3. Download Python
       $ wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.3/Python-2.3.tgz   

    4. Unpack
       $ gunzip -c Python-2.3.tgz | tar xf -

    5. Copy MySQL files
       $ cp MySQL-python-0.9.2/{*.c,*.h} Python-2.3/Modules/
       $ cp MySQL-python-0.9.2/_mysql_exceptions.py Python-2.3/Lib/
       $ cp -r MySQL-python-0.9.2/MySQLdb Python-2.3/Lib/

    8. Enter the MySQL module in the Python extension setup file.
       $ cd Python-2.3/
       $ perl -wpi.bak -e "s,^_sre _sre.c,_mysql _mysql.c `mysql_config --cflags` `mysql_config --libs`\n$&," Modules/Setup
           (This adds the line '_mysql _msql.c [flags]' to Modules/Setup)

       $ perl -wpi.bak -e 's,^LIBSUBDIRS=\s+,$&MySQLdb ,' Makefile.pre.in
           (This adds MySQLdb to the list of libraries to install)

    7. Configure python
       $ cd Python-2.3/
       $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
        [or whatever path you want instead of /usr/local]

    8. Build
       $ make

       Troubleshooting:
           If you get undefined symbols or other compile errors in
           _mysql.c you probably didn't add the correct include
           directory for mysql. If you get unresolved symbols or other
           link errors involving _mysql.o or libmysql.a you probably
           didn't add the correct libraries.

       You may want to check Python and MySQLdb are working before installing
       by running ./python; see below for instructions.

    9. Install
       $ cd ../Python-2.3/
       # make install

Windows: pre-built binary
-------------------------
    There is a built python executable available at the URL listed.

Does it work?
=============
    You can check if your Python and/or MySQLdb was compiled and installed
    correctly like this:
    
    $ python
    >>> import MySQLdb
    >>> MySQLdb.version_info
    >>> MySQLdb.connect(db='databasename', user='username')