Compiling CWB from source under Windows

Compilation and installation of CWB version 2.2.b98

In order to compile and run the CWB tools under Windows you need the cygwin environment. A standard cygwin installation will suffice, plus the following packages (you will find them in the Devel section of the cygwin setup program):

• bison
• flex
• gcc
• libncurses-devel

We recommend to install the simple text editor nano (from the Editors section) for editing configuration files, but you can also use your favourite Windows text editor.

Get the source code from here, and unpack it:

tar xf cwb-XXXXXX.tgz

Enter the new directory:

cd cwb-3.0

First you need to set a few parameters in Makefile.inc using your favorite editor, we used nano:

nano -w Makefile.inc

In the platform directive, insert gnuwin32

# currently available platforms:
#       unix            standard unix configuration (should work on most up-to-date Unix platforms)
#       linux           i386-Linux
#       darwin          Mac OS X / Darwin [use one of the CPU-specific entries below!]
#         darwin-g4      - with optimization for PowerPC G4 processor
#         darwin-g5      - with optimization for PowerPC G5 processor
#         darwin-i386    - with configuration for i386-compatible processors
#       solaris         SUN Solaris 2.x     (used at the IMS Stuttgart)
#       gnuwin32        Windows95 / WinNT using Gnuwin32 (experimental)
#
PLATFORM = gnuwin32

The site directive has to be cygwin

# SITE-SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION: load site-specific config file
#
# currently defined sites:
#       osx-fink        Mac OS X installation in Fink's /sw tree
#       osx-release        Mac OS X release build (static)
#       compling        Linux build on IKW's corpus server compling.cogsci.uos.de
#       compling-release   Linux release build on compling
#       linux-rpm       Binary RPM package on Linux (see rpm-linux.spec)
#       ims             IMS installation in /projekte/CWB/... tree
#       ims-public      IMS public installation in /usr/local/... tree
#       ims-release        Solaris release build (static)
#       ims-sunos-release  IMS release build for SunOS (no longer available)
#       es-sh           Darwin build on es-sh.unizh.ch (Sebastian Hoffmann)
#       es-sh-release   Darwin release build on es-sh.unizh.ch
#       osx-escorp      Configuration for corpus server at University of Zurich (H.-M. Lehmann)
#       cygwin           HBE Windows config (for experimentation with gnuwin32)
#       none            manual configuration
#       standard        standard installation in /usr/local and /corpora/c1 trees
#
# NB If there is no config file for your site, you must set SITE=none
# NB and specify values at least for the next three variables below
# NB (more may be needed).
SITE = cygwin

Then we compile the different components, one at a time. First we clean and check dependencies:

make clean
make depend

Then we compile the corpus library:

make cl

Then editline:

make editline

Then the utilities:

make utils

Finally we compile cqp:

make cqp

Now we're ready to install the whole toolkit:

sudo make install