Lucene++

Welcome to lucene++ version 3.0.6.

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

Components

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:

To build the library the following commands should be issued:

$ mkdir build; cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ make install

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

Note: "BOOST_ROOT" environment variable must be defined to point to the Boost library directory (eg. c:\boost_1_51_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

lucene_tester is built using the Google Testing Framework and is launched by the following command:

$ build/src/test/lucene++-tester

Command options can be discovered by supplying --help.

Ben van Klinken and contributors to the CLucene project for inspiring this project.
Unicode character properties (guniprop) Copyright (C) 1999 Tom Tromey, Copyright (C) 2000 Red Hat, Inc.
Cotire (compile time reducer) by Sascha Kratky.