Revision as of 11:24, 18 August 2009

Compiling and Installing

This document covers compilation and installation of apertium-service on Unix and Unix-like systems only.

apertium-service, like many other Open Source projects, uses GNU buildtools (like autoconf and automake) to create a build environment.

You need the following software installed:

liblttoolbox3
libapertium3
libxmlrpc-c3 - a lightweight RPC library based on XML and HTTP for C and C++.
libtextcat0 - a library implementing the classification technique described in Cavnar & Trenkle, "N-Gram-Based Text Categorization". (optional)
libboost - Boost C++ libraries are a collection of peer-reviewed, Open Source libraries that extend the functionality of C++.

In particular, the following components from Boost C++ libraries are required:

apertium-service can be downloaded from the Apertium SVN repository

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 * libtextcat0 - a library implementing the classification technique described in Cavnar & Trenkle, "N-Gram-Based Text Categorization". (optional)
 * libboost - Boost C++ libraries are a collection of peer-reviewed, Open Source libraries that extend the functionality of C++.
+In particular, the following components from Boost C++ libraries are required:
+* libboost-thread - for portable C++ multi-threading.
+* libboost-filesystem - for portable filesystem operations in C++.
+* libboost-date-time - for portable date/time operations in C++.
+* libboost-regex - regular expression library for C++.
+* libboost-program-options - program options library for C++.