Welcome to Varnam project. Varnam is an open source cross platform transliteration utility that supports phonetic transliteration to indian languages from latin script.Varnam will work on Windows and Linux computers. Please download precompiled binary files for Windows and follow the below compilation instructions for Linux.

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Varnam-0.1.2.1 for Windows -- 26 Sep 2011

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Varnam running on Windows

Varnam running on Linux

Compilation instructions

1. Getting the source code

Varnam uses sourceforge.net provided git repositories.

Clone URL : git://varnam-project.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/varnam-project/MODULE_NAME.
Browse URL : http://varnam-project.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi

2. Dependencies

Varnam uses CMake as the build system. Following are the core parts of varnam project.

libvarnam - Shared library that implements transliterator. Depends on dl and pthread.
varnam-cli - CLI utility used to compile varnam scheme files. Depends on libvarnam.
varnam-gui - Graphical user interface to libvarnam. Depends on libvarnam and wxWidgets.

3. Compilation instructions for Linux

Compilation should happen in the above order. Checkout the code and run

			cmake .
			make && make install

Running make vstfiles on libvarnam source directory will compile the scheme file and produce varnam symbol table file (.vst).

Current status of the project

Varnam is in active development mode. It has a complete implementation of transliterator for Malayalam. Work for adding other languages and features are in progress. If you want to get notifications for new releases, please subscribe to varnam-project-discuss [at] lists.sourceforge.net.