How to Brew Install SQLite3 FTS5 extension? - sqlite

Question

Is there an easy way to enable the FTS5 extension for SQLite3 installed with Brew? Some older posts say there should be an install option --with-fts5, however:
$ brew reinstall sqlite3 --with-fts5
...
Error: invalid option: --with-fts5
The fts3_tokenizer is not enabled. I assume there must be an easy way to install/enabled the extension with Brew without compiling from source outside of Brew.
$ sqlite3
SQLite version 3.35.5 2021-04-19 18:32:05
Enter ".help" for usage hints.
Connected to a transient in-memory database.
Use ".open FILENAME" to reopen on a persistent database.
sqlite> .dbconfig
defensive off
dqs_ddl on
dqs_dml on
enable_fkey off
enable_qpsg off
enable_trigger on
enable_view on
fts3_tokenizer off
legacy_alter_table off
legacy_file_format off
load_extension on
no_ckpt_on_close off
reset_database off
trigger_eqp off
trusted_schema on
writable_schema off
$ brew info sqlite3
sqlite: stable 3.35.5 (bottled) [keg-only]
Command-line interface for SQLite
https://sqlite.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/sqlite/3.35.5 (11 files, 4.2MB)
Built from source on 2021-05-18 at 08:54:33
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/sqlite.rb
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Answer 1

Try to use CFLAGS environment:
CFLAGS="-DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS5" brew reinstall sqlite
Edited:
Rebuild to enable fts5 is unnecessary. The sqlite 3.35.5 package is already fts5 module enabled.
$ brew fetch sqlite
...
$ tar xzf ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/61d40ad2021e894bcf4c7475eea2dbbfee14c4426b1bbb1816c4055ad1c70b50--sqlite--3.35.5.catalina.bottle.tar.gz -O sqlite/3.35.5/lib/libsqlite3.0.dylib \
| strings - | grep '^fts5: 20\|trigram'
trigram
fts5: 2021-04-19 18:32:05 1b256d97b553a9611efca188a3d995a2fff712759044ba480f9a0c9e98fae886

Answer 2

I wrote you on the trac mailing list too but will post here too.
If you check https://sqlite.org/fts5.html there seems to be a option --enable-fts5 but it also seems disabled by the fault. That said they point to a " amalgamation" (there is a link to it in the page) where you can use this option if you compile the " amalgamation".
Markus

Answer 3

FTS5 is enabled. I was mistaken about the source of the problem I'm experiencing.
>>> import sqlite3
>>> import pprint
>>> db = sqlite3.connect(':memory:')
>>> cursor = db.execute('PRAGMA COMPILE_OPTIONS')
>>> pprint.pprint(cursor.fetchall())
[(u'BUG_COMPATIBLE_20160819',),
(u'COMPILER=clang-12.0.5',),
(u'DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE=2000',),
(u'DEFAULT_CKPTFULLFSYNC',),
(u'DEFAULT_JOURNAL_SIZE_LIMIT=32768',),
(u'DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE=4096',),
(u'DEFAULT_SYNCHRONOUS=2',),
(u'DEFAULT_WAL_SYNCHRONOUS=1',),
(u'ENABLE_API_ARMOR',),
(u'ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA',),
(u'ENABLE_DBSTAT_VTAB',),
(u'ENABLE_FTS3',),
(u'ENABLE_FTS3_PARENTHESIS',),
(u'ENABLE_FTS3_TOKENIZER',),
(u'ENABLE_FTS4',),
(u'ENABLE_FTS5',),
(u'ENABLE_JSON1',),
(u'ENABLE_LOCKING_STYLE=1',),
(u'ENABLE_PREUPDATE_HOOK',),
(u'ENABLE_RTREE',),
(u'ENABLE_SESSION',),
(u'ENABLE_SNAPSHOT',),
(u'ENABLE_SQLLOG',),
(u'ENABLE_STMT_SCANSTATUS',),
(u'ENABLE_UNKNOWN_SQL_FUNCTION',),
(u'ENABLE_UPDATE_DELETE_LIMIT',),
(u'HAS_CODEC_RESTRICTED',),
(u'HAVE_ISNAN',),
(u'MAX_LENGTH=2147483645',),
(u'MAX_MMAP_SIZE=1073741824',),
(u'MAX_VARIABLE_NUMBER=500000',),
(u'OMIT_AUTORESET',),
(u'OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION',),
(u'STMTJRNL_SPILL=131072',),
(u'THREADSAFE=2',),
(u'USE_URI',)]