[sword-devel] RIP CLucene on Mac Silicon

[DM Smith]

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
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