diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 88328f65..09c20b17 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 # generated from manifests external_dependencies
+mysqlclient
 pymssql<=2.2.5
 sqlalchemy
diff --git a/setup/base_external_dbsource_mysql/odoo/addons/base_external_dbsource_mysql b/setup/base_external_dbsource_mysql/odoo/addons/base_external_dbsource_mysql
new file mode 120000
index 00000000..01566901
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup/base_external_dbsource_mysql/odoo/addons/base_external_dbsource_mysql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../../../base_external_dbsource_mysql
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup/base_external_dbsource_mysql/setup.py b/setup/base_external_dbsource_mysql/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..28c57bb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup/base_external_dbsource_mysql/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import setuptools
+
+setuptools.setup(
+    setup_requires=['setuptools-odoo'],
+    odoo_addon=True,
+)