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Compiling LBFGS on Mac OSX (10.8.2). Also includes some info about how to integrate the library with the SRI LM Toolkit.
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Installing libLBFGS on Mac OSX 10.8.2

(Note: this assumes that you have XCode and the XCode command line tools installed.)

Download

The libLBFGS source code can be found here.

Unpack

$ cd ~/src
$ tar zxvf ~/Downloads/liblbfgs-1.10.tar.gz
$ cd liblbfgs-1.10

Build

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

The library should now be installed in /usr/local/lib

Using LBFGS with SRI LM Toolkit

If you are installing LBFGS to use with the SRI LM Toolkit, then you should add the following line to common/Makefile.site.macosx (located in the top-level srilm dir) prior to compiling the SRI LM Toolkit:

HAVE_LIBLBFGS=1
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