Diolch yn fawr, Hieu! We wanted to buy a new computer (a Windows OS is mandatory) and thought we might as well get one that’s likely to be supported for some time to come. I had an useful response from the Cygwin mailing list which I’ll copy here in case it is of interest to other Moses users:
Cygwin under Windows 7 works fine for me. The things I noticed were: - It was helpful to some things, especially perl and things built from it, to rebase all the dlls. I have a script for that, though rebaseall may do it for you. - Since I am just a single user, etc., I disable the Windows Vista/7 UAC controls so that more things run without annoying popups to ask permission (and some things just won't run without further fiddling if UAC is on). I think people have resolved UAC issues with further work, but it seems to be a topic that comes up from time to time. That is, for sophisticated things it can be tricky to get them going with UAC on. I found a thread explaining the UAC problem at http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistasecurity/thread/67bfc4b5-faff-4de4-be48-f395bf1c519d. There is an unofficial third-party software available from http://www.itknowledge24.com/ to create a white list so that specific programs can be exempted from UAC prompts. We don't have a computer with Windows 7 yet, so can't test it out, but I like the idea. Other messages on this subject can be seen from http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/ Hwyl, Llio From: Hieu Hoang <hieuho...@... <http://gmane.org/get-address.php?address=hieuhoang%2dRe5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w%40public.gmane.org> > Subject: Re: Moses on Windows 7 <http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c4C613AB8.80104%40gmail.com%3e> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.nlp.moses.user <http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.nlp.moses.user> Date: 2010-08-10 11:40:40 GMT (1 hour and 41 minutes ago) Bore da Lilo from my experience, Cygwin works the same on whatever windows host its running on, so I don't think there'll be a problem. However, cygwin is only available as a 32-bit environment, so you won't be able to access more than 3-4GB RAM. If the reason that you're moving to Windows 7 is to access more memory with a 64-bit OS, you're gonna be out of luck. you can compile the moses decoder natively with visual studio, but I would suggest using linux. On 06/08/2010 15:00, Llio Humphreys wrote: Dear all, We have successfully used Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) with Moses on Windows XP and are now considering running it on a Windows 7 system. If you have experiences of using Moses on a Windows 7 system. I should be grateful if you could advise on any problems, solutions, or whether in fact the installation and performance is more or less the same as on Windows XP. Many thanks, Llio Humphreys From: Llio Humphreys [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 06 August 2010 15:01 To: '[email protected]' Subject: Moses on Windows 7 Dear all, We have successfully used Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) with Moses on Windows XP and are now considering running it on a Windows 7 system. If you have experiences of using Moses on a Windows 7 system. I should be grateful if you could advise on any problems, solutions, or whether in fact the installation and performance is more or less the same as on Windows XP. Many thanks, Llio Humphreys Llio Humphreys [email protected] Testun Cyf Tŷ Norfolk Ffôn: +44 (0)29 2023 1722 57-59 Heol Siarl CAERDYDD Ffacs: +44 (0)29 2023 1002 Cymru CF10 2GD Rhif Cofrestru Cwmni: 2892216 (Cymru) Swyddfa Gofrestredig: 82 Heol Kimberley, Penylan, Caerdydd, CF23 5DN
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