#306 error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

[David Jackson]

python version 2.7
OS: win XP SP3, 32 bit
MySQL-python-1.2.3
mySQL is 5.1

easy_install and setuptools are already installed,

anther unrelated / resolvable issue was
until i changed it , i was getting registry error b/c the site.cfg file was looking for
"registry_key = SOFTWARE\MySQL AB\MySQL Server 5.0" -- not 5.1 !!!

[David Jackson]

error during install

[Andy Dustman]

The register_key issue is not an issue: You're supposed to set it for your local version of MySQL. There are at least 4 versions you could be running.

Read this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2272786/python-issueunable-to-find-vcvarsall-bat

Looks like you need to install Visual Studio 2008.

[David Jackson]

i installed visual studio, rebooted, and added these locations to my path (file is in the bin):
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin

i still get the same error.
how can i change / know where it is looking for the file?

[David Jackson]

since the file is not able to be found, i ran the install from the folder where the missing file was located. the error has changed a bit -

i did this
cd c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC
python c:\temp\MySQL-python-1.2.3\MySQL-python-1.2.3\setup.py install

the error is now:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\temp\MySQL-python-1.2.3\MySQL-python-1.2.3\setup.py", line 15, in <module>
metadata, options = get_config()
File "c:\temp\MySQL-python-1.2.3\MySQL-python-1.2.3\setup_windows.py", line 5, in get_config
metadata, options = get_metadata_and_options()
File "c:\temp\MySQL-python-1.2.3\MySQL-python-1.2.3\setup_common.py", line 7, in get_metadata_and_options
metadata = dict(config.items('metadata'))
File "c:\Python\27\lib\ConfigParser.py", line 600, in items
raise NoSectionError(section)
ConfigParser.NoSectionError: No section: 'metadata'

however, if i run
execfile('setup_common.py') the function get_metadata_and_options() works fine.

per the README for windows
i set this envio variable to this:
set mysqlroot="c:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1"

i have no "mysql_config" on this machine. should this be commented in site.cfg still?

THANK YOU!!!