I just finished hacking the Python package MySQLdb so that it would
build on a Win32 machine. The need for much of the work was caused by
the fact that the author of the package was building against the latest
version of MySQL, and the latest version of the MySQL client libraries
and headers available for 32-bit Windows is several versions behind. I
pulled down the current MySQL sources but there is no support for
building the client libraries on Win32. Where is the Win32 Makefile for
building the client libraries? I don't expect to be able to build the
Win32 DBMS without acquiring a license, but I thought the client
libraries were freely available on all platforms.