[sword-devel] RIP CLucene on Mac Silicon

[Greg Hellings]

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 <dmsmith at 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
> <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json>*
>
> ==> *Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json
> <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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