System environment and dependency management
The deployment of TokenDagger requires two core dependencies: the PCRE2 version 10.0+ development library (libpcre2-dev) and the Python 3.6+ runtime environment. On Ubuntu/Debian systems, the complete installation process consists of five standard steps: 1) install the base dependency libraries via apt; 2) use git clone to get the source code; 3) initialize the git submodule; 4) configure the Python development headers; and 5) run setup.py to complete the compilation and installation.
The project provides detailed environment configuration guidelines especially for different operating systems: on CentOS/RHEL, you need to adjust the yum installation command; on Windows platform, it is recommended to run it through WSL2. For dependency management, in addition to the required PCRE2, TikToken can be installed optionally for performance comparison testing. Typical installation takes about 8-12 minutes in a standard development environment, with the compilation of the PCRE2 library taking the longest. The project documentation provides a docker image rapid deployment solution that compresses the environment preparation time to less than 2 minutes.
This answer comes from the articleTokenDagger: High Performance Text Segmentation ToolThe
