Using this library on iOS

[spullara]

iOS doesn't allow for dynamic libraries and things need to be static linked. Has anyone done the work to get this working in that environment?

[spullara]

Might be related to this issue which mentions statically linking it. #16

[asg017]

I'll be publishing static files in about a week-ish, which might help here. Though I've never done any ios development so I don't know if it'll work.

Is OpenMP available on iOS? That's a requirement for Faiss, which is pretty tricky to compile. Will you also be statically linking SQLite as well?

[spullara]

It looks like it allows dynamic libraries if they are in a framework bundle. I'm somewhat of a novice at all this honestly. As for OpenMP it is hard to say. Maybe this is difficult to get working.

https://mac.r-project.org/openmp/

[spullara]

Looks like maybe this isn't possible right now.

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Afacebookresearch%2Ffaiss+ios&type=issues

[henningko]

Not sure if this would be applicable to your use case, but Similarity Search Kit looks promising.

[aehlke]

It doesn't have contextual search. I recommend waiting for USearch to land on iOS end of month

[mattvr]

Looks like people have gotten FAISS and OpenMP to build on iOS:

• https://github.com/DeveloperMindset-com/faiss-mobile
• https://github.com/DeveloperMindset-com/openmp-mobile
• https://github.com/jkrukowski/SwiftFaiss

[alew3]

any news on this? would be cool to run an embedded vector database.