Faissnama

This project shows how new java.foreign API (project Panama) can be used to call C/C++ library - Faiss - from Java.

Step 1 - build & install faiss

1. Download faiss

   MacOS and Ubuntu:

   git clone https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss.git
   cd faiss

2. Install dependencies

   MacOS:

   brew install libomp

   Ubuntu:

   sudo apt-get install libomp-dev libblas-dev liblapack-dev
   sudo snap install cmake --classic # the version in apt is too old

3. Create build configuration

   MacOS:

   cmake -B build \
   -DFAISS_ENABLE_GPU=OFF \
   -DFAISS_ENABLE_PYTHON=OFF \
   -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
   -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
   -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
   -DFAISS_OPT_LEVEL=avx2 \
   -DFAISS_ENABLE_C_API=ON \
   -DOpenMP_C_FLAGS=-fopenmp=lomp \
   -DOpenMP_CXX_FLAGS=-fopenmp=lomp \
   -DOpenMP_C_LIB_NAMES="libomp" -DOpenMP_CXX_LIB_NAMES="libomp" \
   -DOpenMP_libomp_LIBRARY="/opt/homebrew/opt/libomp/lib/libomp.dylib" \
   -DOpenMP_CXX_FLAGS="-Xpreprocessor -fopenmp /opt/homebrew/opt/libomp/lib/libomp.dylib \
   -I/opt/homebrew/opt/libomp/include" -DOpenMP_CXX_LIB_NAMES="libomp" \
   -DOpenMP_C_FLAGS="-Xpreprocessor -fopenmp  --I/opt/homebrew/opt/libomp/include"
   .

   Ubuntu:

   cmake . -B build \
   -DFAISS_ENABLE_GPU=OFF \
   -DFAISS_ENABLE_PYTHON=OFF \
   -DFAISS_OPT_LEVEL=avx2 \
   -DFAISS_ENABLE_C_API=ON \
   -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON    

4. Build faiss

   MacOS and Ubuntu:

   cmake --build build --config Release -j

5. build & install faiss C API

   MacOS:

   cd build/c_api && make && sudo make install
   sudo cp libfaiss_c.dylib /usr/local/lib/  

   Ubuntu:

   cd build/c_api && make && sudo make install
   sudo cp libfaiss_c.so /usr/local/lib/  

Step 2 - generate C bindings

1. Download & extract jextract

   MacOS:

   wget https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jextract/1/openjdk-20-jextract+1-2_macos-x64_bin.tar.gz
   && tar -xzf openjdk-20-jextract+1-2_macos-x64_bin.tar.gz

   Ubuntu:

   wget https://download.java.net/java/early_access/jextract/1/openjdk-20-jextract+1-2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz
   && tar -xzf openjdk-20-jextract+1-2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz

2. Generate faiss C bindings (they will be created in faiss directory)

   MacOS:

   cd scripts && ./create_bindings.sh

   Ubuntu:

   cd scripts && ./create_bindings_ubuntu.sh

Reference

• https://github.com/carldea/panama4newbies