Hi Judah

Have you tried compiling with "link=shared" and without irstlm?

The python interface to Moses is, afaik, incomplete and has not been 
heavily used. I have successfully used it to query a binarised phrase 
table but haven't tried its decoding interface.

cheers - Barry

On 30/06/14 16:04, Judah Schvimer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm attempting to use the python interface to aid with a translation 
> pipeline for longer pieces of text. Currently the pipeline is all 
> written in python so this interface seemed perfect. I've run into a 
> few problems however. The first problem is with compiling moses. Using 
> "./bjam --libdir=/home/judah/mosesdecoder/lib link=shared -j12 -a" the 
> compilation is successful, but using "./bjam 
> --with-boost=/home/judah/boost_1_55_0 
> --with-irstlm=/home/judah/irstlm-5.80.03 
> -libdir=/home/judah/mosesdecoder/lib link=shared -j12 -a" the 
> compilation fails. Compiling with only irstlm and no link=shared 
> succeeds. Do you have any idea what's wrong? I can include a log if 
> that would help. I have followed all of the documentation as well as I 
> could. The error is:
>
>
> "/usr/bin/ld: 
> /home/judah/irstlm-5.80.03/lib/libirstlm.a(dictionary.o): relocation 
> R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared 
> object; recompile with -fPIC
>
> /home/judah/irstlm-5.80.03/lib/libirstlm.a: error adding symbols: Bad 
> value"
>
> I've tried recompiling both moses and irstlm with the -fPIC flag but 
> nothing has worked so far.
>
> The second issue is with the interface itself. I may be 
> misunderstanding the point of this interface but it seems to not 
> translate anything longer than a 2 word phrase, is this something I'm 
> doing wrong or is that all that it can do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Judah
>
>
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