Install SyntaxNet on Windows 10 - xzhaos/miscellaneous GitHub Wiki

Google has introduced SyntaxNet for depedent parsing (https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/syntaxnet). However in the instruction, it only specifies for Ubuntu and MacOS. Here is the missing instructions for installation on Windows 10.

1. Make sure you have installed latest Windows 10 release with creator update.
2. Install Ubuntu on Windows feature (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about)
3. The installed version is 16.04 but the one required by SyntaxNet is 16.10+. for that, we need to upgrade the Ubuntu. Open the Ubuntu Shell and type in: sudo do-release-upgrade -p (this will take a while)
4. when done, you can check the version of the Ubuntu by typing in:

me@dev:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 17.04 Release: 17.04 Codename: zesty me@dev:~$

5. run sudo apt-get install -y graphviz libgraphviz-dev libopenblas-base libpng16-16 libxft2 python-pip python-mock

Install the python 2.7 if there is no python installed.

6. run pip install pygraphviz --install-option="--include-path=/usr/include/graphviz" --install-option="--library-path=/usr/lib/graphviz/"
7. run pip install 'ipython<6.0' protobuf numpy scipy jupyter
8. download the syntaxnet wheel file from pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/syntaxnet-with-tensorflow/0.2
9. install the wheel: sudo pip install syntaxnet_with_tensorflow-0.2-cp27-cp27mu-manylinux1_x86_64.whl --install-option="--include-path=/usr/include/graphviz" --install-option="--library-path=/usr/lib/graphviz/"