Setting up a build environment for a language pair

Prerequisites

• All the language data files:

• • Monolingual dictionaries
  • Bilingual dictionary
  • Transfer rule files
  • modes file

The general steps

You need a Makefile.am which contains the build rules, and a configure.ac which contains the dependencies.

The configure.ac I would just take from an existing package. They're all pretty much the same.

The Makefile.am really depends on your configuration. E.g.

• Bidirectional?
• Variants?
• 3-level or 1-level transfer?

Mandatory files for autotools: NEWS README ChangeLog AUTHORS COPYING

You can just touch these files, they may be empty. Or you can fill them in.

Once you've got the files you can do:

$ aclocal
$ automake -a
$ autoconf

This will give you a configure file, which you can run which will make your Makefile