Apertium on Windows - Revision history

Francis Tyers at 22:06, 7 March 2018

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Link to French page

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Documentation in English

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Introductory notes

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Building under Cygwin

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Building under Cygwin

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Building under Cygwin

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 [[Installation sur Windows en utilisant cygwin|En français]]
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 This page is kept for historical purposes, if you want to install Apertium on Windows easily, see: [[Apertium_VirtualBox]]
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-This page is kept for historical purposes, if you want to install Apertium on Windows easily, see: [[Apertium guide for Windows users]]
+This page is kept for historical purposes, if you want to install Apertium on Windows easily, see: [[Apertium_VirtualBox]]
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+[[Installation sur Windows en utilisant cygwin|En français]]
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+This page is kept for historical purposes, if you want to install Apertium on Windows easily, see: [[Apertium guide for Windows users]]
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 Apertium is Unix software (this includes [[Mac OS/X]]). It's not formally supported on Windows - though we would all ''like'' it to run on Windows, it's not supported. It seems that Apertium is a difficult beast to get working, which is odd for us, because in a unix environment, it "just works".
-Cygwin, as a 'Unix-like' environment for Windows, ''should'' be an easy target for us; however, Apertium makes heavy use of <code>wstring</code> in its C++ code, which is not supported by Windows versions of GCC earlier than 4.0.
+Cygwin, as a 'Unix-like' environment for Windows, is an easy target for us, because it fully supports <code>wstring</code> (wide-char strings, widely used by Apertium) since version 1.7.
 Lttoolbox builds with Visual C++ without additional changes - provided that you follow the instructions in README.Win32.

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-Then, by using Cygwin's <code>bash</code> shell, go in LTToolbox' sources directory and execute the following sequence of commands:
+Then, by using Cygwin's <code>bash</code> shell, go in LTToolbox' sources directory:
+<pre>
+cd lttoolbox
+</pre>
+And execute the following sequence of commands:
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+cd ../apertium
 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
 make

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 Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows, which provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment. Therefore it is possible to launch Windows applications from the Cygwin environment, as well as to use Cygwin tools and applications within the Windows operating context.
-LTToolbox and Apertium can be easily built under Cygwin 1.7: first make sure you have all the needed dependencies; then, by using Cygwin's <code>bash</code> shell, go in LTToolbox' sources directory and execute the following sequence of commands:
+LTToolbox and Apertium can be easily built under Cygwin 1.7: first make sure you have all the needed dependencies; you can checkout LTToolbox' and Apertium's sources directly from Apertium's SVN repository by using Cygwin's shell with the following commands:
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+svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/lttoolbox lttoolbox
+svn co http://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium apertium
+</pre>
+Then, by using Cygwin's <code>bash</code> shell, go in LTToolbox' sources directory and execute the following sequence of commands:
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 Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows, which provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment. Therefore it is possible to launch Windows applications from the Cygwin environment, as well as to use Cygwin tools and applications within the Windows operating context.
-LTToolbox and Apertium can be easily built under Cygwin 1.7: first go to lttoolbox directory with
+LTToolbox and Apertium can be easily built under Cygwin 1.7: first make sure you have all the needed dependencies; then, by using Cygwin's <code>bash</code> shell, go in LTToolbox' sources directory and execute the following sequence of commands:
-<pre>
-cd apertium/lttoolbox
-</pre>
-Then launch autogen.sh
-<pre>./autogen.sh</pre>
-Launch make
-<pre>make</pre>
-That last command may takes some minutes.
 <pre>
+./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
+make
 make install
 </pre>
+Then go in Apertium's source directory and do the same:
-<pre> cd .. </pre>
-<pre> cd apertium </pre>
-<pre>PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./autogen.sh
-</pre>
 <pre>
+./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
 make
 make install
 </pre>
+Now you're ready to download and build language pairs and use them under Cygwin's shell.
 =Building under Visual C++=