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diff --git a/BUILDING b/BUILDING new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bedfa5d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/BUILDING @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +To build cdec, you'll need: + + * SRILM (register and download from http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/) + * Google c++ testing framework (http://code.google.com/p/googletest/) + * boost headers & boost program_options (you may need to install a package + like boost-devel) + + +Instructions for building +----------------------------------- + + 1) Download and build SRILM + + 2) Download, build, and install Google Test + + 3) Use automake / autoconf to generate the configure script. + I'm not an expert at using these tools, so I'm not quite sure how to do + this, I just flail around until it works. Since I have my own m4 scripts + you'll need to make sure to do: + + aclocal -I m4/ + + I usually have to do some permutation of the following commands: + + aclocal -I m4/ + autoconf + automake -a + autoreconf + + 4) Configure and build. Your command will look something like this. + + ./configure --with-sirlm=/home/me/software/srilm-1.5.9 --with-gtest=/home/me/software/gtest + make + + If you get errors during configure about missing BOOST macros, then step 3 + failed, and you need to keep working at it. If you get errors during the + build, it's probably a problem with step 3 or possibly with some compiler + version idiosyncracies (generally, I assume you have a relatively new + of g++). + + 5) Test + + ./tests/run-system-tests.pl + + Everything should pass. + + + 6) Enjoy! + |