I downloaded pyodbc-3.0.7 , it fails with this error:

sudo python setup.py build running build running build_ext building 'pyodbc' extension gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fPIC -DPYODBC_VERSION=3.0.7 -I/usr/include/python2.4 -c /opt/home/hyelluas/pyodbc-3.0.7/src/params.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.4/opt/home/hyelluas/pyodbc-3.0.7/src/params.o -Wno-write-strings /opt/home/hyelluas/pyodbc-3.0.7/src/connection.h:27: error: âuintptr_tâ does not name a type error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

looks like stdin is not defined .

thank you. Helen

here is more for the error : src/connection.h:27: error: ‘uintptr_t’ does not name a type

I faced the same issue while building pyodbc using gcc-4.1.2 and python2.4 on a centOS 5 box. For me the following packages worked: python27 python27-devel gcc44 gcc44-c++

After installing the above packages, I ran: sudo python2.7 setup.py build

The 'uintptr_t' error is because the older versions of gcc-c++ don't define 'uintptr_t' type.