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How to install Sphinx search engine in Snow Leopard, x86 and x86_64

Sphinx is a free and open source SQL full-text search engine.
I assume you already have installed Xcode from Snow Leopard DVD.

First step is to download Sphinx, for this little guide we are going to use a beta.

cd into your favourite directory, mine is 'src' in my homedir.

cd src
curl -O http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.9-rc2.tar.gz

Decompress:

tar zxvf sphinx-0.9.9-rc2.tar.gz
cd sphinx-0.9.9-rc2/

For 32-bit users:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local

For 64-bit users:

LDFLAGS="-arch x86_64" ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

Remember that you can also specify sphinx to use MySQL this way, by appending this string to ./configure:

--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql

or/and PostgreSQL

--with-pgsql

All users:

make
sudo make install

We are done.
If you encounter some errors, be sure to search for 'mysql' in this website, and follow the guide.

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