Talk:Apertium on Windows

Packaging a windows release?

Perhaps Cygwin license[1] would allow a packging of apertium and the required cygwin items to create a windows release?

Ote 22:55, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

It should be possible, but cygwin distribution must be optimized for size. I've tried compiling apertium with cygwin last week, but it gave some errors and could not advance further. I would also appreciate if someone had packaged cygwin with apertium and also supplied a batch file which enables translation with a simple double click under Windows environment.--Msalperen 09:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but you're wrong. It's not possible to build Apertium with any currently existing version of Cygwin. Cygwin's great, but it's not 100%. Cygwin 1.7 reputedly has the missing pieces of Unicode support that we need, but it doesn't as yet use GCC 4, which we also need. As soon as Cygwin 1.7 is available with GCC 4, I'll look into it again. -- Jimregan 18:05, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and to answer the original question; the licence of Cygwin is not a problem. Apertium hasn't been packaged for cygwin due to technical issues -- Jimregan 18:07, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Compilation

Is "valgrind" the correct version to use for Windows ? But next, directory Win32 is missing, on the other hand "branches\apertium" has a Win32 dir. but no lttoolbox. The page can be updated depending on the answer.

All of the Windows stuff is now merged into the trunk. We should really delete the branch[es]. - Francis Tyers 12:51, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Correction: the win32 work on lttoolbox has all been merged - it should build without problems in VC++. The work on Apertium hasn't all been merged, and it's not yet complete. I'll get to it, I'm just not majorly motivated, because I despise Windows :) -- Jimregan 18:05, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

I think all the necessary stuff has been merged no ? A couple of weeks ago we guided a guy through compiling it on Windows, and he managed it without any patches. It might be worth looking at the mailing list posts, look up the thread [Apertium-stuff] Help on errors in Windows build. - Francis Tyers 18:10, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

I remember that thread. Nope, no magical fixes slipped in under my nose. Same problems exist. -- Jimregan 22:08, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Windows not supported ?

But the code I am trying to compile now will work right ? Mlavaud 18:32, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Yes. What "not supported" means is that we don't really know _how_ it works, and can't offer the same level of support as on *nix. :) At least two or three people have got it working under Windows, so it is possible. - Francis Tyers 18:35, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

I will help fix things with pleasure if I can. Mlavaud 18:38, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Cool thanks :) I think that at the moment the main thing we're lacking is documentation. So any details you can add or clarify we'd be very happy :) - Francis Tyers 18:54, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

First I need a few parameetrs to be correctly positionned: I have "#define MB_CUR_MAX ___mb_cur_max_func()" activated in stdlib.h and it is not compatible with "char symbol[MB_CUR_MAX+1];" in apertium_deshtml.cc -> "error constant needed", also I have "wchar_t cad[filename.size()];" in the same file, but an array definition needs a constant, or is there a parameter somewhere in Visual C++ for that ? Mlavaud 19:47, 23 November 2008 (UTC)