Installing Sphinx on Mac OS X Leopard

Raymond Law — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:28:00 -0400

Download the latest release from http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads.html

The usual

./configure
make
make install

gives me an error:

g++  -Wall -g -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O3 -DNDEBUG   -o indexer  indexer.o libsphinx.a  -L/opt/local/lib -L/opt/local/lib/mysql5/mysql -lmysqlclient -L/opt/local/lib -lz -lm  -L/opt/local/lib -lssl -lcrypto  -liconv -lexpat  -L/usr/local/lib
Undefined symbols:
  "_iconv_close", referenced from:
      xmlUnknownEncoding(void*, char const*, XML_Encoding*)in libsphinx.a(sphinx.o)
  "_iconv", referenced from:
      xmlUnknownEncoding(void*, char const*, XML_Encoding*)in libsphinx.a(sphinx.o)
  "_iconv_open", referenced from:
      xmlUnknownEncoding(void*, char const*, XML_Encoding*)in libsphinx.a(sphinx.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [indexer] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

These two articles detail how you can resolve the error:

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Installing Sphinx on Mac OS X Leopard