can i use dtsearch in C++ under linux, if yes what APIshould i use?

Question

Hello, I want to use dtsearch in my desktop application written in C++ and Gtkmm. Can i have any API or link to the API to do my thing.

Thanks and Regards Owais Masood

Answer 1

Some trickery would be required, because, if I understand correctly, the dtSearch core is written against the Win32 APIs. So maybe if you had the right Win32 emulation layer you could do it?

That said, having used both dtSearch and Solr/Lucene, I would recommend you not use dtSearch, unless there's some edge feature that only it can offer you. There are some nice open source search engines these days. I would suggest the main java version of Lucene, but integrating C++ with Java might be a pain. Have you checked out CLucene, the C port of Lucene? Or one of the other open source search engines based on C/C++?