Faiss: Question: Executing FAISS inside an iOS/Android application

[Aashit-Sharma]

Question

Is it possible to call functions from the compiled Faiss files from within an app (or in an environment/OS that is different than what the FAISS files were compiled in) ?

If not ,is there a way to compile Faiss files to execute in an iOS environment ?
Thanks!

[beauby]

You'd need to cross-compile Faiss for the target platform, which may need slight tweaks of parts of the code, but it is technically possible. Feel free to submit a PR!

[Aashit-Sharma]

@beauby thanks , But I can't find an option to compile faiss for iOS. Will MacOS compiled FAISS work in iOS ?

[beauby]

There is no option to compile faiss for iOS, you will have to look into cross-compilation of libraries for iOS, as a version of Faiss compiled for MacOS will not directly work in iOS.

[beauby]

Ref for people interested in running Faiss on iOS: https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss/projects/3.

[Aashit-Sharma]

@beauby Thanks for creating a project. I will try to do it myself.

For others , I found this : https://github.com/szanni/ios-autotools

Haven't tried it yet but looks promising

[Aashit-Sharma]

A few more cross compilation libraries :
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

https://github.com/tpoechtrager/cctools-port/
hope it helps

[Zumbalamambo]

+1