Thanks, Ken, for mentioning us.
Hi Chaz. I don't normally talk about Slate Desktop on the Moses list but
I'll fill Ken's opening.
We first launched a Windows-based Moses toolkit (called Slate) about 2
years ago. I took toolkit off the website a while back, and I'm about to
re-post it for download. The new toolkit will include an installer
includes the necessary Perl and Python runtimes, supporting GNU Windows
utilities (sort/gzip, etc), post-Release 3 Moses binaries and
Perl/Python scripts updated for cross-platform operations.
To make our Windows binaries, we did not use the bjam tools in the open
source GIT repository. Instead, we made our own proprietary Makefiles
that cross-build the Windows binaries on an Ubuntu host. As they are
proprietary, we do not distribute the Makefiles or instructions to
create our build environment. However, we checked-in all of our changes
to Moses source code to trunk and I can share the commit ID's with
anyone who's interested. Please contact me privately if you're
interested in licensing our proprietary Makefiles and instructions. In
the next week or so, I'll re-post our packaged Moses toolkit on our
website's e-commerce store. The binaries and scripts in this package are
licensed under their respective open source licenses. You'll need to
build your own Windows-based applications, an arduous task at best.
That's where Slate Desktop comes in.
Our Slate Desktop product includes the Moses toolkit distribution. It
also includes our proprietary tools for corpus management, corpus
preparation, engine management and connectors to popular CAT tools
(memoQ, Trados Studio, OmegaT, and CafeTran Espresso). Our EULA and
one-time perpetual license fee govern the use of these proprietary
tools. We showcase them in action here:
http://pttools.net/portfolio/showcase/
So, if you're looking for free Windows software, Slate and Slate Desktop
are not for you. You'll need to follow Ken's advice for "pure
contributor-based (support) where you'd be expected to submit patches."
If you're more interested in immediate productivity that gets you up and
running in less than 10 minutes, Slate Desktop is the answer. It's an
off-the-shelf Windows application at a reasonable fee with excellent
technical support. Judging by your Moses list support requests, you've
already spent more time on the of your engineering effort at a cost of
more than the price of a Slate Desktop license.
Regards,
Tom
On 5/30/2017 11:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 12:12:08 +0100
From: Kenneth Heafield<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Moses-support] Request for help w/ "The build failed."
To: daideqi<[email protected]>,[email protected], Hieu Hoang
<[email protected]>
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
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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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