Oh, you kids and your silly file deletions! All the changes to Makefile etc etc could be applied automagically with a perl script if there's a flag that says "compile under Cygwin". I seem to recall someone proposing this a couple years ago, but nothing came of it. If there was such a flag, then some sucker^H^H^H^H^H noble soul might write that script.
Regarding language models, you could certainly wait for a native Windows LM tool, but you probably want to get work done in the near future *grin* I have no knowledge of any LM tools on Cygwin, nor have I used the Moses internal LM at all - note how i skipped that part in the instructions. I put SRILM in the FAQ because it's the only one I've used in the past, but compiling SRILM on Cygwin (or anything at all) is, um, not fun. I think the CMU LM toolkit is also supposed to work in Cygwin, and I'm sure lots of other people have written small but good-enough scripts to generate LMs, so the stumbling block at present is probably neither the quantity nor quality of LM providers, but in the ease of use. If any of the IRSTLM/KenLM/$foo-LM -using folks on here have instructions or experience with compiling their particular tool under Cygwin, lemme know, and I'll either include it or point to it. I guarantee dozens of extra downloads! Cheers, ~amittai From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hieu Hoang Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 10:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Moses-support] A guide to running Moses on Windows 7 ah, excellent, there's quite a few people using moses on cygwin but this is the 1st time i've seen a howto document. i noticed a couple of things: 1. Makefile.WIN32 and check-dependencies.WIN32 has been deleted. They weren't kept up to date, so I blitzed it. 2. You can compile SRILM, IRSTLM and KenLM on cygwin. Using the Internal LM is a bad idea. ps. now you're at the Motherlode, can you bend someone's ear and get them to release an LM that runs natively on Windows, ie. compiles with Visual Studio. Every C++ part of Moses already does but it bugs me not to have the decoder run natively on windows On 16/07/2011 05:32, Amittai Axelrod wrote: Hullo Moses-folk: I've written what I think is the first step-by-step guide to installing and compiling Moses on Windows (7), using Cygwin. Hopefully this will make it easier for people to use the most common open-source MT system on the most common OS. Plus, it addresses this FAQ: http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.FAQ#ntoc9 Read v1.00 here: http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/people/amittai/Moses-on-Win7.pdf I wrote this with the goal of finding _a_ working solution, not an _elegant_ one, so please send me comments / complaints / fixes / improvements, and I will happily both update the document and credit you. Best, ~amittai -- subvert from within _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
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