Tracking Issue: iOS Support

[asg017]

sqlite-vec theoretically runs on iOS devices, but I haven't tried it yet.

How can we package and distribute sqlite-vec so iOS developers can use it in mobile and native apps?

I don't know anything about iOS development so please help me answer the following questions:

• What are common SQLite client libraries that iOS devs use? Do they allow dynamically loading SQLite extensions?
• What "package managers" exist for 3rd party iOS libraries?
• How do iOS library bundle in pre-compiled shared object files?

P.S. - if you're company or organization would benefit from sqlite-vec on iOS, I'd love to have you as a sponsor!

[asg017]

new Swift PR that may help a lot: #74

[jkrukowski]

What are common SQLite client libraries that iOS devs use? Do they allow dynamically loading SQLite extensions?

Here are some: SQLite.swift GRDB.swift

It looks like the SQLite version provided by the OS (macOS and iOS) is compiled without the ability to load new extensions, see here.

What "package managers" exist for 3rd party iOS libraries?

• SPM provided by Apple
• Cocoapods
• Carthage

How do iOS library bundle in pre-compiled shared object files?

I created a simple proof of concept SQLiteVec SPM package that can be used from both iOS and macOS and bundles together the SQLite and sqlite-vec. This way we skip the sqlite provided by the OS.