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+0) Preliminaries
+
+Before building you need to decide what language model toolkit (SRI's
+or IRST's) you want to use.  If you want to use SRI's, you will need
+to download their source and build it.  The SRILM can be downloaded
+from http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/download.html .
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+1) Instructions for building with SRILM
+
+Build SRILM according to their release instructions.  Make sure that
+you DO NOT override the MACHINE_TYPE variable on the command line when
+you do so, as this can lead to problems locating the library.
+
+ Build the moses library:
+
+   cd moses
+   ./configure --with-srilm=/path/to/srilm
+   make
+
+ Build the moses binary:
+
+   cd ../moses-cmd
+   ./configure --with-moses=`pwd`/../moses --with-srilm=/path/to/srilm
+   make
+
+ The resulting decoder binary will be moses-cmd/src/moses .
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+2) Instructions for building with IRSTLM
+
+ Build IRSTLM, and install it to a location of your choice.
+
+   cd irstlm
+   ./configure --prefix=/path/to/irstlm
+   make
+   make install
+
+ Build the moses library:
+
+   cd moses
+   ./configure --with-srilm=/path/to/srilm
+   make
+
+ Build the moses binary:
+
+   cd ../moses-cmd
+   ./configure --with-moses=`pwd`/../moses --with-srilm=/path/to/srilm
+   make
+
+ The resulting decoder binary will be moses-cmd/src/moses .
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+