Apertium on Windows

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)

1. Check out the repository as normal using svn.
2. Make and install lttoolbox
   1. ./autogen.sh
   2. make
   3. make install
3. Make and install apertium (currently doesn't work due to problems with *_unlocked functions and a strdup problem)
   1. export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
   2. ./autogen.sh
   3. make