[CWB] CWB for cygwin

[Alberto Simões]

Hello, Diana

Note that you can install the native windows version and, as far as a
command line is available, you can use it from Cygwin.

I never tried it, but, Stefan, correct me if I am saying anything wrong :)

Cheers
Alberto

On 22/06/2010 22:09, Diana Santos wrote:
> 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 at sslmit.unibo.it [mailto:cwb-bounces at 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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Alberto Simões