[CWB] CWB for cygwin

Diana Santos Diana.Santos at sintef.no
Tue Jun 22 23:09:56 CEST 2010


Hi Stefan
Yes I absolutely am an active CWB user, but NOT on Windows, thank you...
The point of Cygwin was precisely to avoid Windows in the few machines I have around that are not Linux.
But I see there's no hope except the hard way (compiling it from source code).
I'll see what I can do, then.
Diana

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cwb-bounces  sslmit.unibo.it [mailto:cwb-bounces  sslmit.unibo.it]
> On Behalf Of Stefan Evert
> Sent: 22. juni 2010 22:06
> To: Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench
> Subject: Re: [CWB] CWB for cygwin
> 
> Hi Diana,
> 
> nice to hear you're still an active CWB user! :-)
> 
> I have two suggestions:
> 
> 1) If you want to use Cygwin, you should definitely compile from
> source, especially if the binaries are several years old.  I used to
> have a lot of problems with the CWB in Cygwin (some problem with
> memory-mapping, at least on larger corpora above 10 M words), which
> went away with a recent version of Cygwin.
> 
> 2) Why not try the native Windows version that's currently in beta
> testing?  It may have some limitations in interactive use, but it
> should be more robust and efficient than the Cygwin one.  You can
> download a binary release here:
> 
> 	http://cwb.sourceforge.net/beta.php
> 
> Andrew Hardie is in charge of the beta testing releases (3.1 for
> Windows, and 3.2 with Unicode support), so he may have something to
> add.
> 
> I'd like to encourage you to try option 2 -- we're very grateful for
> all beta testers!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Stefan
> 
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