Apertium on Windows

Using Cygwin

It is possible to compile Apertium for use on windows using Cygwin, which provides a UNIX-like environment in windows.

Before you begin you should install the cygwin with the following additional packages, if you find this list incomplete please update it.

• autoconf (Devel)
• automake (Devel)
• flex (Devel)
• libgcrypt (Libs)
• libtool (Devel)
• libxml2 (Devel)
• libxml2-devel (Devel)
• libxslt (Libs)
• pkg-config (Devel)
• subversion (Devel)

Steps

1. Check out the repository as normal using svn.
2. Patch the apertium source this patch (save it as no_unlocked.diff)

   $ patch -p1 < no_unlocked.diff

3. and this one too (save as no_ansi.diff)

   $ patch -p1 < no_ansi.diff

4. Make and install lttoolbox
   1. ./autogen.sh
   2. make
   3. make install
5. Make and install apertium (required the patches from above)
   1. export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
   2. ./autogen.sh
   3. make

Using Mingw

From Windows

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE DO NOT HAVE THIS WORKING YET. IF YOU CAN HELP US FILL IN THE REMAINING STEPS, WE WOULD BE GRATEFUL

Getting the packages

First, you need to download all the necessary MinGW components. According to the MinGW Download page, you need "mingw-runtime, w32api, binutils and gcc tarball packages" for a minimal installation. For our installation, we used (all of which come from the MinGW Sourceforge download page):

1. mingw-runtime-3.13.tar.gz
2. w32api-3.10.tar.gz
3. binutils-2.18.50-20071123.tar.gz
4. gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz
5. gcc-g++-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz

We also recommend that you download bash, MSYS and coreutils. We downloaded:

1. bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-1.tar.bz2
2. MSYS-1.0.11-20071204.tar.bz2
3. coreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2

Installing the packages

You will need a way to unpack the downloaded files. 7Zip is an excellent open source utility that can unpack tar.gz and tar.bz2 files.

Create a directory to hold your MinGW installation. We will assume that it is c:\msys\1.0.

Unpack each of the downloaded files, except for the GCC packages, into c:\msys\1.0. This directory should look as follows after unpacking:

c:
`-msys
  `-1.0
    |-bin
    |-doc
    |-include
    |-lib
    `-man

Each of bin, doc, include, lib and man should contain some files.

From Linux (cross-compiling) (Debian/Ubuntu)

Because some of the packages required to compile Apertium are not ported to MinGW, we can make a cross-compiling in order to use Linux-based programs (e.g FLEX).

These instructions have been tested using Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.

Setting up the environment

Packages required

• mingw32 3.4.5 (Ubuntu package)
• mingw32-binutils 2.16.91 (Ubuntu package)
• mingw32-runtime 3.12 (You need to install last Debian package from here)
• mingw32-libxml ^
• mingw32-libxml-dev ^
• mingw32-glib ^
• mingw32-glib-dev ^
• mingw32-libiconv ^
• mingw32-libiconv-dev ^
• mingw32-libz ^
• mingw32-libz-dev ^
• mingw32-pkgconfig ^

It is possible that some packages are not really required.

^ You can get them from this repository

Steps

1. Check out the repository as normal using svn.
2. Patch the apertium source this patch (save it as no_unlocked.diff)

   $ patch -p1 < no_unlocked.diff

3. this one, (save as no_ansi.diff)

   $ patch -p1 < no_ansi.diff

4. also this one (save as autogen.diff)

   $ patch -p1 < autogen.diff

5. and this one (save as ushort.diff)

   $ patch -p1 < ushort.diff

6. Make and install lttoolbox
   1. ./autogen.sh
   2. make
   3. make install

From Windows

One could look into using the official MinGW package. This would allow compiling the packages on Linux.

Bugs

• Cross compiling with wstring