Cygwin installation notes

[Andreas Stolcke]

Thanks for the information.  Some of this is already mentioned in
doc/README.windows, but I'll add what isn't.

--Andreas

In message <001001c1ba6d$38849860$e100a8c0 at BENJ0EJR796N2M>you wrote:
> Thank you for supporting Cygwin with SRILM v1.3!  This is a great help for
> those of us without easy access to a Unix-based system.  For cygwin
> installation, the following additions to the instructions in the INSTALL
> file are necessary:
> 
> - You must choose to install the following Cygwin components:
>    tcsh, tcltk, time
>   in addition to the obvious*
> 
> - If the file /bin/csh does not exist you must do
>     cd /bin ; ln -s csh tcsh
>   Same for: ln -s awk gawk
> 
> - After installation, your $HOME/.bashrc file should contain:
>     export SRILM=/cygdrive/c/srilm13   # or similar
>     export MACHINE_TYPE=cygwin
>     export PATH=$PATH:$SRILM/bin:$SRILM/cygwin/bin # mentioned in INSTALL
>     export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$SRILM/man     # mentioned in INSTALL
> 
> Note that I installed Cygwin from http://www.planetmirror.org. Each mirror
> site has a slightly different set of Cygwin components that are installed by
> default.
> 
> * If you have enough demand from users, it would be worth making a list of
> components that are necessary for installation. This list would include gcc,
> make, bash, tcsh, tcltk, time, and possibly awk, perl, sed, gzip, ...
> 
> ______________________________________
> Ben Reaves                      b.reaves at ieee dot org
> 
>