INSTALL.win32

these instructions are most probably out of date





Alpino win32 binary usage instructions
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This port is *very much experimental!!!!* 

installation instruction:

- install Tcl/Tk 8.4.19 (get it from somewhere)
- cd c:\
- unzip the Alpino zip file (available in current directory) 
- cd c:\Alpino            
- bin\alpino

some differences with Unix version of Alpino:

- no support for reading XML files from compact corpora
- if the GUI is running, you cannot use the Prolog command interpreter,
  nor the Hdrug command interpreter (due to limitations of SICStus on
  the windows platform)
- there most probably are further limitations (timeout?? memory-out??)

Feedback to G.J.M.van.Noord@rug.nl and D.J.A.de.Kok@rug.nl

Compilation
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You don't really want to go here, but if you are really courageous,
the optimal build configuration is:

- Windows 2000, updated to the most recent service pack.
- Visual Studio 2005 (preferred over g++ for correct linkage).
- Cygwin (including Alpino build dependencies).

Getting all paths set correctly is a bit annoying. For instance, you'll
want to use 'link' from Visual Studio (rather than Cygwin), but the
Cygwin sort command. Putting the Cygwin path first, renaming Cygwin's
link.exe should do the trick.