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
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