Building PyLucene

PyLucene is completely code-generated by JCC whose sources are included with the PyLucene sources.

Requirements

To build PyLucene a Java Development Kit is required; use of the resulting PyLucene binaries requires only a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). A recent C/C++ compiler is also required.

Attention: Starting with release 9.x, Lucene requires Java 11 or above.
Attention: Starting with release 6.x, Lucene requires Java 1.8.

On macos and linux, the Temurin JDK is recommended. See "Notes for Linux" at this page for installation instructions on Linux Debian 11.

On any system, if you're upgrading your Java installation, please rebuild JCC as well. You must use the same version of Java for both JCC and PyLucene.

A modern version of setuptools is required for building JCC in shared mode. See JCC's installation instructions for more information.

For the Impatient Ones

pushd jcc
edit setup.py to match your environment
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
popd
edit Makefile to match your environment
make
make test (look for failures)
sudo make install

For the Rest of Us

Before building PyLucene, JCC must be built first. See JCC's installation instructions for building and installing it.

Once JCC is built and installed, PyLucene is built via make which invokes JCC. See PyLucene's Makefile for configuration instructions.

There are limits to both how many files can fit on the command line and how large a C++ file the C++ compiler can handle. By default, JCC generates one large C++ file containing the source code for all wrapper classes.

Using the --files command line argument, this behaviour can be tuned to workaround various limits, for example:

to break up the large wrapper class file into about 2 files:
--files 2
to break up the large wrapper class file into about 10 files:
--files 10
to generate one C++ file per Java class wrapped:
--files separate

Notes for Solaris 11 with Sun Studio C++ 12

PyLucene's Makefile is a GNU Makefile. Be sure to use gmake instead of plain make.

Just as when building JCC, Python's distutils must be nudged a bit to invoke the correct compiler. Sun Studio's C compiler is called cc while its C++ compiler is called CC.

To build PyLucene, use the following shell command to ensure that the C++ compiler is used:
$ CC=CC gmake

Notes for Solaris 11.1 with GCC 4.5

PyLucene's Makefile is a GNU Makefile. Be sure to use gmake instead of plain make.

Edit Makefile and do the following changes: Insert and enable a Solaris-Section with the following content

\# Solaris   (Solaris 11.1, Python 2.6, 32-bit, Java 1.7)
PREFIX_PYTHON=/usr
ANT=/usr/bin/ant
PYTHON=$(PREFIX_PYTHON)/bin/python
JCC=$(PYTHON) -m jcc.\_\_main\_\_ --reserved DEFAULT_TYPE
NUM_FILES=4

gmake
su gmake install

Building PyLucene