WSGI: _mysql.so Image not found

Environment: MacBook Pro, OSX 10.6, Python 2.6.1 64 bit, MySQL 5.X 64 bit

I am having problems installing MySQLdb for use with Django. After installing everything I am able to open the python interpreter and execute:

import MySQLdb

This works fine. I am also able to create and run django apps and host them using the development server:

./manage.py runserver

But I am now trying to host this django app in my local apache. So I installed and configured mod_wsgi and added a virtual host to httpd.conf setting the location of my *.wsgi script. From that script I am able to define the application function en return a simple Hello World string.

But when I try to run:

import MySQLdb

inside a try block in my *.wsgi script, the caught exception says the following:

dlopen(/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/_mysql.so, 2): Library not loaded: 
libmysqlclient.18.dylib Referenced from: /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/_mysql.so 
Reason: image not found

So, simply put, the problem is that my MySQLdb adapter works when using it in the python interpreter and django development server, but not thro开发者_运维问答ugh Apache and mod_wsgi.

Any suggestions?