[CWB] cwb under win 7 32 bit

[Markus]

Thanks Serge and Andrew!

I'm going to try it immediately

@Halena: Sorry, I don't know how to exclude people.

Best, Markus

Am 09.03.2011 18:30, schrieb Hardie, Andrew:
> The corpus registry is a folder you specify where the indexing tools
> (usually cwb-encode) put  files describing the corpora you have indexed.
> Then, CQP reads these files when it accesses the registry, so it can
> search your indexed corpora.
>
> By default the registry is C:\CWB\Registry on Windows, but it doesn't
> have to be. You can specify otherwise. You can change it to the folder
> that contains the registry file for that Dickens corpus if you want to
> use that, or to any other location where you have created a registry
> file.
>
> Have you read both the tutorials?
>
> http://cwb.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
>
> Best
>
> Andrew.
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it
>> [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it] On Behalf Of Markus
>> Sent: 09 March 2011 17:21
>> To: Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench
>> Subject: Re: [CWB] cwb under win 7 32 bit
>>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> thank you very much for your advice.
>> But which registry is meant here?
>> The one from my system32 whatever or the folder that is for
>> example included in your DICKENS corpus example (which I have
>> extracted into my CWB-directory)?
>> I'm sorry for the technical inabilities but I am a student of
>> English so my computer skills are limited.
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance, Markus
>>
>> Am 09.03.2011 17:53, schrieb Hardie, Andrew:
>>> Actually, you HAVE got it running. The warning you are getting on
>>> starting CQP is harmless, you just need to tell it where
>> your actual
>>> registry is, by saying
>>>
>>> set Registry "C:\where\your\registry\is"
>>>
>>> The failure of the installation script to copy stuff into
>> the created
>>> folders is unfortunate, we haven't been able to test things
>> thoroughly
>>> on Windows 7 yet so I don't really know what the problem is. But as
>>> you've observed, you can just run the programs from the
>> location where
>>> you've unzipped them to (the creation of a folder under
>> Program Files
>>> is really just for tidiness, if you really want them there then you
>>> can simply copy across the entire contents of each of
>>> bin/include/lib/man in the install file into those empty folders).
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Andrew.
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it
>>>> [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it] On Behalf Of Markus
>>>> Sent: 09 March 2011 16:31
>>>> To: Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench
>>>> Subject: [CWB] cwb under win 7 32 bit
>>>>
>>>> Sorry to bother you all with this rookie sort of a
>> question but I am
>>>> fighting with the workbench for a week now and I just can't get it
>>>> running.
>>>> I downloaded the cwb-3.2.b3-windows-i586, extracted everything to
>>>> c:\, then ran the install-cwb-win.bat as the admin.
>>>> Then the new CWB directory was created in
>> c:\programm-files\cwb but
>>>> there I get only 4 empty folders:
>>>> bin/include/lib/man. Nothing in there at all.
>>>> I still did the path-thing in system although it linked to
>> the empty
>>>> bin folder.
>>>> When I try to double click on cqp.exe in the unzipped
>>>> (initial) bin folder (because there I got a lot of .exe
>>>> files) , it just says:
>>>> warning, couldn't open directory c:\CWB\Registry>continuing>  [no
>>>> corpus].
>>>>
>>>> Please, all I want to do is run a few queries for a term paper
>>>> accessing ukWaC.
>>>>
>>>> I would be very glad if somebody could help me!
>>>>
>>>> Thank you very much, with kind regards, Markus
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