Cygwin is even worse. Windows support is either a commercial product (http://pttools.net/) or pure contributor-based where you'd be expected to submit patches.
On 05/30/2017 12:03 PM, daideqi wrote: > Hi Kenneth, > > Thanks! I must confess that I fought and fought over the past 3-day weekend > trying to get Moses and Moses for Mere Mortals to work on my Windows 10 > Ubuntu install. It was so painful and overheated my box too (a dell > inspirion i7-6700 16GB RAM and running Windows 10). And nothing worked! Try > as I might, something always failed at the end. > > So, it's back to the drawing board for me. I'm thinking of installing Cygwin > and trying Moses on that. My *nix-foo isn't the best, but I'm not a novice. > Trying to get Moses to work has been surprisingly difficult, at least for me. > Back to work... > > Wax on...wax off... > > All the Best, > Chaz > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 5/29/17, Kenneth Heafield <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Request for help w/ "The build failed." > To: [email protected], "Hieu Hoang" <[email protected]>, "daideqi" > <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, May 29, 2017, 3:08 AM > > A symlink > for CreateProbingPT2 has nothing to do with KenLM. The > symlink already exists and the build system is trying to > make it again (this also means not windows). I suppose we > should be using ln -sf. > > > > Try deleting CreateProbingPT2 then rebuilding. > > > > Kenneth > > On May 29, 2017 1:04:25 AM > GMT+01:00, Hieu Hoang <[email protected]> > wrote: > are you using Windows 10, or Ubuntu > 14? It seems you are using a Windows file system and this > is causing some unit tests in KenLM to fail. > > I would recommend > you do everything on Linux > > * Looking for MT/NLP opportunities * > Hieu Hoang > http://moses-smt.org/ > > > > On 28 > May 2017 at 00:50, daideqi <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi, > > > > Respectfully request help with Moses. I'm trying to > compile it on Windows 10 Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. I successfully > built Moses yesterday but decided to delete the mosesdecoder > folder and rebuild for practice. Unfortunately, it's > not working anymore, and I'm following the instructions > that the system gave me. As an aside, I got this error > after running the recommended bjam command: > > ln: failed to create > symbolic link ‘CreateProbingPT2’: File exists > > > > Would be grateful for assistance that can be provided. > > > > Very Respectfully, > > Chaz > ______________________________ > _________________ > > Moses-support mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.mit.edu/ > mailman/listinfo/moses-support > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
