This is a brief post on how to get Perl's DBD::mysql working with MAMP 1.7 on Mac OS X Leopard. The instructions for now, are quite concise.
I have found that using CPAN does not seem to work to install DBD::mysql when you only have MAMP installed. The CPAN commands:
perl -MCPAN -eshell
install DBD::mysql
This I think is due to MAMP not having the correct MySQL files or libraries installed. Below are the steps required to get DBD::mysql working.
