tools/eval/trec_eval.9.0.4/README.windows.md

Compiling

To achieve a compilation of trec_eval for Windows, you will need Cygwin installed.

Download and install the Cygwin platform. You will need make and gcc installed by Cygwin. To achieve this, on top of the default Cygwin installation, it is recommended to install automake, make, gcc, cygwin-gcc and git from the Develop category, and permitting dependencies to be installed.

Then, to compile trec_eval, open a Cygwin Terminal, navigate using cd to the directory of the trec_eval source, and type make.

Running

The resulting trec_eval.exe should be usable directly from the Cygwin Terminal.

The resulting trec_eval.exe should be usable on any machine without Cygwin installed, as long as the cygwin1.dll is available. For instance, place a copy the cygwin1.dll from Cygwin's /bin directory into the same directory as trec_eval.exe.