Welcome to lucene++ version 3.0.4.

Lucene++ is an up to date C++ port of the popular Java Lucene library, a high-performance, full-featured text search engine.

• liblucene++ library
• liblucene_contrib library
• lucene_tester (unit tester)
• deletefiles (demo)
• indexfiles (demo)
• searchfiles (demo)

Official Java Lucene - useful links and documentation relevant to Lucene and lucene++. Lucene in Action by Otis Gospodnetic and Erik Hatcher.

You'll need the Boost libraries installed somewhere.

On Debian systems, the following packages are required:

• libboost-date-time-dev
• libboost-filesystem-dev
• libboost-regex-dev
• libboost-thread-dev
• libboost-iostreams-dev
• libboost-test-dev

To build the library the following commands should be issued:

$ cmake .
$ make
$ make install

To build the demo programs, execute the following after having first built the library:

$ make indexfiles searchfiles deletefiles

After running CMake you can use Waf to drive the build. Waf requires that you have a recent version of Python installed on your system.

To build the library the following commands should be issued:

$ ./waf configure
$ ./waf --static build

Additionally static builds of the following libraries are required for a successful build:

• boost::date_time
• boost::filesystem
• boost::regex
• boost::thread
• boost::system
• boost::iostreams
• boost::unit_test_framework

The libraries and headers should be made available at a standard prefix (/usr/local for example).

Open solution lucene++.sln located in the msvc folder into Visual Studio 2008 and build.

Note: "BOOST_ROOT" environment variable must be defined to point to the Boost library directory (eg. c:\boost_1_44_0)

You'll need Boost installed.

BoostPro has some precompiled Windows packages. You'll need the following extras installed:

- boost::system
- boost::thread
- boost::filesystem
- boost::regex
- boost::date_time
- boost::iostreams
- boost::unit_test_framework

Use of ccache will speed up build times a lot. I found it easiest to add the /usr/lib/ccache directory to the beginning of your paths. This works for most common compilers:

PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH

lucene_tester is built using the Boost Unit Test Framework and is launched by the following command:

$ bin/lucene_tester --show_progress=yes

Other command options can be supplied.

• Ben van Klinken and contributors to the CLucene project for inspiring this project.
• Jamie Kirkpatrick for cross-platform and waf build support.
• nedmalloc Copyright 2005-2006 Niall Douglas
• md5 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2002 Aladdin Enterprises
• Unicode character properties (guniprop) Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Tromey, Copyright (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.