Installing mysqlclient in Python 3.6 in windows

Had the same problem, searched the web etc. Here this answer:

mysql-python install error: Cannot open include file 'config-win.h'

It has all the instructions. In short go to this site: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mysqlclient:

At that website you will find
mysqlclient‑1.3.13‑cp36‑cp36m‑win32.whl
mysqlclient‑1.3.13‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl

Download the correct file for your platform.

Then use your downloaded wheels file with pip and you're done:

pip install c:\mysqlclient‑1.3.13‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl

The https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs has lots of lots of compiled libraries to solve the problem of building them from source yourself. They even compile them for python 3.7 :)

Alternative Solution

You can also download Visual C++ Build Tools and then you should be able to install every (at least to my knowledge) version of mysqlclient with pip.

To do this go to this site: https://www.scivision.co/python-windows-visual-c++-14-required/ there you can find out which version of Build Tools you need and you can also find a link to download the installer. Be aware though Build Tools require more than 4GB of free disk space.

I can't find mysqlclient-1.3.13's whl file on PyPi. So you need to compile it from source. Unfortunately it's not easy. I'm not Windows guy, so I only can recommend guide like this