Properly install sqlite3 with FTS5 support

Question

I\'m developing a Python tool which uses a sqlite3 virtual table with FTS5 (Full Text Search). I would like to know how to properly install from a tarball (or any other mean

Answer 1

I think is a linking problem! I followed the same install steps with you and got the same results:

$ python ./test.py 
[(u'ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA',), (u'ENABLE_FTS3',), (u'ENABLE_RTREE',), (u'ENABLE_UNLOCK_NOTIFY',), (u'ENABLE_UPDATE_DELETE_LIMIT',), (u'MAX_SCHEMA_RETRY=25',), (u'OMIT_LOOKASIDE',), (u'SECURE_DELETE',), (u'SOUNDEX',), (u'SYSTEM_MALLOC',), (u'TEMP_STORE=1',), (u'THREADSAFE=1',)]
NO

However, when you install something by configure/make/make install on Linux, it usually goes in /usr/local/lib. To make sure that python links on runtime against the correct .so I used LD_LIBRARY_PATH. In this case I got:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib python ./test.py 
[(u'COMPILER=gcc-4.8.5',), (u'ENABLE_FTS5',), (u'HAVE_ISNAN',), (u'TEMP_STORE=1',), (u'THREADSAFE=1',)]
YES

Additionally, when installing libraries, you might have to update ldconfig. On my system (Ubuntu 14.04):

$ sudo ldconfig
$ python ./test.py 
[(u'COMPILER=gcc-4.8.5',), (u'ENABLE_FTS5',), (u'HAVE_ISNAN',), (u'TEMP_STORE=1',), (u'THREADSAFE=1',)]
YES

Notice that using LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not needed any more and python links against the correct lib. For this to happen you will need to have /usr/local/lib folder in your ld.so.conf somewhere... for me this is in:

$ grep -ir local /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf:/usr/local/lib

Answer 2

Thank you for your answers @urban and @saaj. I found your answers constructive.

The problem I see to @saaj answer is that it requires extra packages, specifically apsw package, which is not compatible with pypy, for example. I could not manage to make it work, but may be my fault.

I really like @urban answer. I did the process and got it working. I marked this answer as correct.

However I would like to add my own answer. Is quite aggressive but it worked for me. I created an Ubuntu docker with the following Dockerfile:

FROM ubuntu:16.04
RUN apt-get update -y
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN=true apt-get install -y apt-utils tzdata
RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN=true dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
RUN echo "Europe/Berlin" > /etc/timezone
RUN dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata
RUN apt-get update -y
RUN apt-get install -y git build-essential sudo

Afterwards, inside the Ubuntu docker I did. In the process I remove sqlite3 and installed its dependencies, that I found in the following article. Afterwards I reinstalled python.

sudo apt-get update -y
echo "[ - Removing sqlite3... ]"
sudo apt-get remove -y sqlite3
sudo apt-get purge -y sqlite3
echo "[ - Installing sqlite3 dependencies... ]"
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential bzip2 git libbz2-dev libc6-dev libgdbm-dev libgeos-dev liblz-dev liblzma-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline6 libreadline6-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev lzma-dev python-dev python-pip python-software-properties python-virtualenv software-properties-common sqlite3 tcl tk-dev tk8.5-dev wget
echo "[ - Installing sqlite3... ]"
sudo wget "https://www.sqlite.org/src/tarball/sqlite.tar.gz?r=release" -O sqlite.tar.gz &> /dev/null
sudo tar -xzvf sqlite.tar.gz
cd sqlite
sudo ./configure --enable-fts5
sudo make
sudo make install
cd ..
echo "[ - Reinstalling python... ]"
sudo apt-get remove -y python python3 python-dev
sudo apt-get install -y --reinstall python2.7 python3 python-dev
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential bzip2 git libbz2-dev libc6-dev libgdbm-dev libgeos-dev liblz-dev liblzma-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libreadline6 libreadline6-dev libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev lzma-dev python-dev python-pip python-software-properties python-virtualenv software-properties-common sqlite3 tcl tk-dev tk8.5-dev wget

Answer 3

The easy way is to use apsw (Another Python SQLite Wrapper). Its API is just a little different from sqlite3 and you can't just pip-install it (unless you're okay with outdated version), but the rest is good and you can have the most recent features of SQLite.

wget https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw/releases/download/3.22.0-r1/apsw-3.22.0-r1.zip
unzip apsw-3.22.0-r1.zip
cd apsw-3.22.0-r1
python setup.py fetch --sqlite build --enable-all-extensions install

Then,

import apsw

apsw.Connection(':memory:').cursor().execute('pragma compile_options').fetchall()

Returns:

[('COMPILER=gcc-5.4.0 20160609',),
 ('ENABLE_API_ARMOR',),
 ('ENABLE_FTS3',),
 ('ENABLE_FTS3_PARENTHESIS',),
 ('ENABLE_FTS4',),
 ('ENABLE_FTS5',), 
 ('ENABLE_ICU',),
 ('ENABLE_JSON1',),
 ('ENABLE_RBU',),
 ('ENABLE_RTREE',),
 ('ENABLE_STAT4',),
 ('THREADSAFE=1',)]

The hard way is to compile Python with custom SQLite. More detail in this article by Charles Leifer.