Install Sphinx 1.10 Beta on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard with MAMP 1.9.4

By default, MAMP is missing some components that Sphinx requires. These steps will upgrade your MAMP install with the required components.

Download MAMP_components_1.9.dmg. After the file is done downloading double click on it to mount the DMG. Once the DMG is mounted navigate to the MAMP_src folder. 

Once in the folder find the mysql-5.1.44.tar.gz file. Once you find the file drag it to your downloads folder. Once in Downloads double click on mysql-5.1.44.tar.gz to extract it.

Next, startup Terminal and enter the following 

cd ~/Downloads/mysql-5.1.44

and hit enter.

Now enter the following, this will configure MySQL for your system:

sudo ./configure --with-unix-socket-path=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock --without-server --prefix=/Applications/MAMP/Library

Then enter the text below, this will compile MySQL:

sudo make -j2

This command will copy the libs to your MAMP directory

sudo cp libmysql/.libs/*.dylib /Applications/MAMP/Library/lib/mysql

The next two commands make a directory and then copy the header files.

sudo mkdir /Applications/MAMP/Library/include

sudo cp -R include /Applications/MAMP/Library/include/mysql

Change to your home directory:

cd ~

Download Sphinx 1.10 Beta:

curl -L -O http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-1.10-beta.tar.gz

Extract Sphinx:

tar -xzf sphinx-1.10-beta.tar.gz

Change to the Sphinx directory:

cd sphinx-1.10-beta

Download the libstemmer source code. this is so Sphinx can get to the root of a word: 

curl -O http://snowball.tartarus.org/dist/libstemmer_c.tgz

Extract libstemmer:

tar -xzf libstemmer_c.tgz

Configure the Sphinx installer: Note, there are two ways to install Sphinx you can use the command below to install Sphinx into the local directory or you can give Sphinx its own directory in local with the second command. Make sure to only run one of the commands though.

sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-libstemmer --with-mysql=/Applications/MAMP/Library

sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/sphinx --with-libstemmer --with-mysql=/Applications/MAMP/Library

Build Sphinx:

sudo make

Install Sphinx:

sudo make install

You should now have Sphinx installed in your /etc/local directory or your /etc/local/sphinx directory depending on how you installed it.