MySQLdb on Intel Mac

[Aidas Bendoraitis]

Hello Python and MySQL developers!

I've got an Intel-based Mac, installed the latest universal binary of MAMP (Apache + MySQL + PHP on Mac), and now I am having difficulties while installing MySQLdb 1.2.1 p2 related to the MySQL 5.0.19 which is included in the MAMP.

MAMP 1.3.1 is installed at /Applications/MAMP.
I downloaded the source of MySQL 5.0.19 and placed the included/header (*.h) files to /Applications/MAMP/Library/include/mysql.

Then I set the following settings in the site.cfg of the MySQLdb:

[compiler]
mysql_root: /Applications/MAMP/Library
library_dirs: %(mysql_root)s/lib/mysql
include_dirs: %(mysql_root)s/include/mysql

Then I build and install MySQLdb as it is told in the README of MySQLdb source. I get no errors at this time. But whenever I open Python shell and try to import _mysql or MySQLdb, I get the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: dlopen(/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_mysql.so, 2): Symbol not found: _mysql_get_host_info
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_mysql.so
Expected in: dynamic lookup

Does anybody have any clues, where the problem is?