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FT3 V0.2 stable

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Installation guide

Installation from source

choose a directory to install all softwares, as an example we take prefix=$HOME/dist.

1. You can know download all required softwares with a download.sh script which is inside the distribution!
   The script use curl to download.
2. Install pre-requisite softwares, if you don't have them:
   • sqlite3:
     required
     Follow the procedure from sqlite web site, we use 3.2.7 version.
   • sparsehash
     suggested
     If you wan't to minimize the memory consumption at indexation time, you can install this hash map program.
     Follow the procedure from sparesehash web site, we use 0.3 version. If you use 0.2 version, you may have to add a make CXXFLAGS+='-Isrc' in order to have it to build.
   • libedit
     suggested
     This is a BSD implementation of the readline library. If you don't install it, you just loose the history of command for ft3_searcher.
     You can download it from thrysoee.
   • expat
     suggested
     You need expat to build the demo. It should already be available on your site.
   • icu
     NOT USED IN 0.3, WILL BE IN 0.4
     Follow the procedure from ICU download web site, we use 3.2 version.
3. grad the tarball from sourceforge.net.
4. decompess it somewhere:

   tar zxvf ft3-0.3.0.tar.gz
   

   and change directory via

   cd ft3-0.3.0
   

5. configure the software:

   sh ./configure --prefix=$HOME/dist
   

   note that

   sh ./configure --help
   

   gives a full list of options. Note that if you want to install in another directory with the prefix option, you have to add some flags at configure time:

   CPPFLAGS='-I/where/I/install/include' LDFLAGS='-L/where/I/install/lib' sh ./configure --prefix=/where/I/install
   

6. compile it with a

   make
   

   and install it with a:

   make install
   

   Note: you get some warnings when you compile ft3_language which you can ignore.

Binary install

Each version of FT3 should come with some binaries for platform I have access to, currently cygwin, WinXP and Linux 32bits (Ubuntu). You just grab a tarball for your OS, untar it (or unzip it) and you got the 2 binaries build in the previous section. You still need the source tarball to get the documentation and SQL schemas.

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