Hi again and thanks a lot for your answer.

I have been trying the whole process from the very beginning, and I realized that I did some things wrong. However, after uninstalling several versions of Visual Studio, reinstalling again the Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 and checking and trying some other stuff I have manage to follow exactly what the installation guide says without any problem (appart from some compiler warnings).

Everything goes alright until I do the final nmake install. Then, this is what happens:

C:\Program Files\FreeLing-4.1\build>nmake install
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 14.00.24210.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
[ 13%] Built target foma
[ 27%] Built target treeler
[ 91%] Built target freeling
[ 92%] Built target threaded_analyzer
[ 93%] Built target analyzer_client
[ 94%] Built target analyzer
[ 95%] Built target build-dict
[ 96%] Built target fusion-mw
[ 97%] Built target dicc2phon
[ 98%] Built target gz-cat
[ 99%] Built target convert_model
[ 99%] Building CXX object APIs/python2/CMakeFiles/_pyfreeling.dir/freeling_pythonAPIPYTHON_wrap.cxx.obj
freeling_pythonAPIPYTHON_wrap.cxx
c:\python27\include\pyconfig.h(57): warning C4068: unknown pragma
c:\python27\include\pyport.h(187): fatal error C1189: #error: "Python needs a typedef for Py_ssize_t in pyport.h."
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\PROGRA~2\MICROS~1.0\VC\bin\amd64\cl.exe' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\amd64\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\amd64\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

I can provide you any information about what I have done to reach up to this point if that's convenient, but I suppose this might have something to do with my Python environment. I have tried to google for this error but I haven't found anything relevant. Any ideas?

Moltes gràcies!

BR Iván Arias Rodríguez

Hello again,

During the last days, I have been trying to make FreeLing work in Python after being able of compiling it, but I haven't been able at all. What is worse, thinking that the problem could come from the SWIG library being installed in a path that contains spaces, I moved it directly to C:\swigwin. I changed the corresponding parameters and tried to recompile everything. But I haven't been able to make it compile again, even if I apparently reverted all the changes. I don't understand what's going on here. The error I get is this:
[...]
[100%] Linking CXX executable convert_model.exe
[100%] Built target convert_model
Scanning dependencies of target pyfreeling_swig_compilation
[100%] Swig source
(1) : Error: Unable to find 'swig.swg'
(3) : Error: Unable to find 'python.swg'
C:\FreeLing-4.1\APIs\python3\freeling_pythonAPI.i(46) : Error: Unable to find 'std_string.i'
C:\FreeLing-4.1\APIs\python3\freeling_pythonAPI.i(47) : Error: Unable to find 'std_wstring.i'
C:\FreeLing-4.1\APIs\python3\..\common\templates.i(8) : Error: Unable to find 'std_list.i'
C:\FreeLing-4.1\APIs\python3\..\common\templates.i(9) : Error: Unable to find 'std_vector.i'
C:\FreeLing-4.1\APIs\python3\..\common\templates.i(10) : Error: Unable to find 'std_map.i'
C:\FreeLing-4.1\APIs\python3\..\common\templates.i(11) : Error: Unable to find 'std_pair.i'
C:\FreeLing-4.1\APIs\python3\..\common\templates.i(14) : Error: Unable to find 'std_set.i'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'echo' : return code '0x1'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\amd64\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\BIN\amd64\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

I don't know the reason why it doesn't find swig.swg and python.swg, because they are in the same place they have always been. I have even set the environment variable SWIG_LIB, pointing to the swigwin\Lib folder (and some others, I have tried all kind of things). But I always get the same error. If I execute swig.exe -swiglib the result is the expected swigwin\Lib folder. Any ideas?

I have been full-time over a week trying to make FreeLing work in Python and so far, I'm quite desperate. Considering the idea that I won't ever be able to make it work this way, is there any easier way to pass a text file full of sentences to FreeLing and get the results?

Any help on this would be highly appreciated.

Thanks!

BR Iván Arias Rodríguez

Yes, I think most probably at some point I broke something and I didn't realize.

Well, the point is that I wanted to compare your tagger/lemmatizer with one that I'm creating as part of my PhD (which doesn't work that well, but it is not supervised, and doesn't need any tagged corpus to train with). I have coded everything with Python, so it would be really handy if I could just manage both taggers within the same Python program.

Anyway, I have tried the analyzer.bat that comes in the precompiled Windows package, and most probably I can just get the result as a text file and parse it with Python. In fact, I had already tried the analyzer.bat but I mistakenly thought it didn't work, most probably because I didn't wait long enough for the answer. I hope I can work with FreeLing this way.

Thanks a lot for your help!