[CWB] Cross-compiling

[Andreas Blätte]

Dear colleagues,

after hours of pain, I think I managed to cross-compile a 64 bit Windows 
version of the CWB.  If you are interested, this is where you can get 
the result:

http://polmine.sowi.uni-due.de/public/?dir=CWB


Feedback welcome, whether this really passes your tests!

The instructions in the INSTALL-WIN file are really very helpful. 
However, cross-compiling glib caused me quite a few headaches (at the 
end, I did not do that myself). I tried to capture in a gist at GitHub 
how I proceeded:

https://gist.github.com/ablaette/dc43b7f916121da7e6d15999e4bacf00

The intention behind this 64 bit version is to be able to compile some 
C/C++ code in an R package agains libcl, and to make functions available 
to a R package I am developing (polmineR, see 
www.github.com/PolMine/polmineR).

I admire the rcqp package that actually already does that, but I did not 
manage to cross-compile that for 64 bit windows, and having immediate 
access to the corpus library creates creates opportunities to speed up 
performance critical tasks. Once I move beyond the proof of concept, I 
will share that.

Kind regards

Andreas


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Prof. Dr. Andreas Blätte
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Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Universität Duisburg-Essen

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