Is it possible to compile and use xapian, clucene or lucy on iOS?

Question

I want to compile and use Xapian with xcode on iOS, does anyone have any experiments on this? Is it possible?

Is there another option for full-text search in iOS? S4luceneLib (in Obj-C), which works, but is a port of the old version of lucene, I also checked Clucene and lucy, which, like xapian, I can not compile on iOS.

Any help and comment would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Speaking as one of the authors of Xapian, I don’t remember how anyone reported trying to compile Xapian on iOS. I also do not know any fundamental reason why it would be impossible to compile it on iOS. I suggest you contact the Xapian developer community (on the xapian-discuss mailing list: http://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-discuss or on the #xapian IRC channel on irc.freenode.net), as well details of the attempts you made to compile Xapian, as well as the errors or problems you encountered.