[sword-devel] Clucene .09.23 and Sword 1.6.0 / 1.6-svn -Compiling Help

Nic Carter niccarter at mac.com
Wed Nov 25 22:27:34 MST 2009


Thanks for the quick reply, Greg  :)

I have CLucene running fine on the iPhone (I found getting cURL a bit more tricky!), I'm just curious about CLucene .23 (faster, less memory footprint) vs .21 (which is what sword currently uses) and Nathan was looking into this, I think?

Just timed indexing KJV on my 2.5 year old MacBook Pro (using MacSword2 - which I'm loving, btw!) & it was over 50 seconds.  I'm laughing at how long that would take on an iPhone or any such device!  What have others done for search on small/similar devices?

Thanks, ybic
	nic...  :)

ps:  I've submitted PocketSword to the App Store.  I'm giving it 2 weeks before I allow myself to wonder how it's going....  Will ping to the list when it gets accepted (cause it WILL be accepted!!!)  :)

On 26/11/2009, at 3:54 PM, Greg Hellings wrote:

> Nic,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Nic Carter <niccarter at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi there Nathan.  :)
>> 
>> I was wondering how you were going on this?
>> 
>> I'm working on an iPhone front-end & am about to start work on v1.1.  The main feature for 1.1 is search & I'm examining the various options that I have to do this.......  I pulled it from v1.0 due to the headaches it caused & so now I have to face up to it!  ;)
> 
> I can't answer for Nathan, and I haven't bothered with anything for
> the iPhone in quite some time (I found their GUI creator kit to be
> completely a black art, and their idea of a "delegator" didn't seem to
> match up with my experience of event listeners).  However, I do have
> some experience with bending configuration utilities into submission.
> 
> CLucene, if I'm not mistaken, defaults its build system to CMake.
> Here you're in luck, because CMake is actually comprehensible to the
> uninitiated, while autotools has a very steep learning curve.  You
> might just want to try building a version of the CLucene library for
> iPhone and link that into your SWORD build.
> 
> This link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/794137/how-to-set-up-cmake-to-build-a-library-for-the-iphone
> seems to have some helpful hints, including a promise of a full How-To
> guide at the bottom.  Seeing as you managed to build SWORD for the arm
> processor, I'm guessing you have most of the inside details needed.  A
> possibly more up-to-date version of the mentioned guide for 3.0 and
> 3.1 also appears here
> http://sites.google.com/site/michaelsafyan/coding/articles/iphone/cross-compiling-for-the-iphone-using-cmake.
> 
> Best of luck, I hope to see your app in the AppStore soon!
> 
> --Greg
> 
>> 
>> Any direction you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks, ybic
>>        nic...  :)
>> 
>> On 20/10/2009, at 4:28 AM, Nathan Anderson wrote:
>> 
>>> Matthew,
>>> 
>>>       Thanks for letting me know -- I kinda wondered if that was the case.
>>> I have already deb-ized the .21b for this device to get something going.
>>> When I have some free time; I will come back and work on understanding what
>>> sword needs from Clucene and will attempt to make a #DEFINE able patch to
>>> allow .23 or .21 to work.
>>> 
>>>       As for indexes, I'm not sure -- I understand .21 is compatible with
>>> 1.8/9 branch of Jlucene.  But .23 is compatible with 2.3.2 branch of Jlucene
>>> and that version of J/C Lucene is much faster, with if, I recall correctly,
>>> a slightly lower memory footprint.  Since the device I'm working with is a
>>> low memory and a embedded arm chip; faster and lower memory requirements is
>>> a very (very) nice perk.  ;-)
>>> 
>>> Nathan.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Matthew Talbert [mailto:ransom1982 at gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 12:02 PM
>>> To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum
>>> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Clucene .09.23 and Sword 1.6.0 / 1.6-svn
>>> -Compiling Help
>>> 
>>>>        I'm working on porting the whole stack to another device that
>>>> does not have any of the libraries yet.   I will "use" 21b if I have
>>>> to to get past the issue.  But I would love to use .23 if possible.
>>> 
>>> I think it would be great to have support for .23. As far as I know, no one
>>> has worked on this at all. It is important (imo) to keep compatibility with
>>> 21b, as that is what will be in all the linux distros until .23 is marked
>>> stable. I would be interested in trying out .23 on Windows though, if it
>>> proves to be reasonably stable (I have no clue if the indexes it creates are
>>> compatible with .21b; that could be an issue).
>>> 
>>> Matthew
>>> 
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