I’ll see about giving Xapian a go. I used your cmake contribution to compile. First time using cmake. Is it easy to modify that for Xapian?
— DM > On Jun 5, 2025, at 1:07 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.helli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > CLucene had been ready dead for a long time. I've maintained some patches on > github in a branch I tagged with 2.3.3.5 a while back that allowed it to > cross compile to Windows with GCC once updates to the compiler broke it years > ago. > > Sadly, everything that replaces it seems to be very slow by comparison. But > CLucene itself should be tossed on the heap of history at this point. > > Sword has support for Xapian, I believe, which is a much more recent and up > to date library that should support Macs. Have you tried with that? > > --Greg > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2025, 8:10 AM DM Smith <dmsm...@crosswire.org > <mailto:dmsm...@crosswire.org>> wrote: >> This morning I tried to build SWORD lib on my MacBook. It took some trial >> and error to get it to build, but it was without CLucene. >> >> For those that are interested, homebrew is the typical way to install Un*x >> packages on a Mac. After adding many packages necessary for build to work at >> all, I worked on missing optional dependancies: ICU and CLucene. >> >> Adding icu4c was trivial. >> >> But CLucene gave the following fatal error: >> brew install clucene >> ==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json >> ==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json >> Error: clucene has been disabled because it is not maintained upstream! It >> was disabled on 2024-12-16. >> >> The source hasn’t changed since 2011. :( >> >> I then tried building from source. Perhaps I don’t know what I’m doing, but >> I got errors that indicated that it won’t compile on Apple Silicon. I was >> able to modify source to finally get it to compile, but I don’t think this >> is the way to go. >> >> In Him, >> DM >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org >> <mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org> >> http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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