<div dir="auto">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.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">--Greg</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 5, 2025, 8:10 AM DM Smith <<a href="mailto:dmsmith@crosswire.org">dmsmith@crosswire.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Adding icu4c was trivial.</div><div><br></div><div>But CLucene gave the following fatal error:</div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">brew install clucene</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:#400bd9">==></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> <b>Downloading <a href="https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json</a></b><b></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:#400bd9">==></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> <b>Downloading <a href="https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json</a></b><b></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures;color:#b42419">Error:</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> clucene has been disabled because it is not maintained upstream! It was disabled on 2024-12-16.</span></p></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">The source hasn’t changed since 2011. :(</span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">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.</span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div>In Him,</div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">        </span>DM</span></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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