The MAMP 1.9.4 MySQL installation is missing the include
directory and certain libraries.
Download the MAMP 1.9 Components
Extract mysql-5.1.44.tar.gz
and compile to /opt/local
cd mysql-5.1.44
./configure --prefix=/opt/local
make
sudo make install
Copy the include
directory to the MAMP installation
cp /opt/local/include /Applications/MAMP/Library/
Copy some missing libraries
cp /opt/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient* /Applications/MAMP/Library/lib/mysql/
Update your PATH in ~/.profile
file.
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin:$PATH
export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/Library/include/mysql:$PATH
source ~/.profile
Install Homebrew
Install sphinx
brew install sphinx