RunHawDict

You'll need:

1. A PC running Windows, OSX, or Linux
2. The Latest HawDict Release

Download and extract the correct archive for your PC (see Installation for more details).

The easiest way to run HawDict is to just double-click on the HawDict binary. This will create the dictionary files directly in the current folder.

If you'd rather create the dictionary files in a different folder, you can also run HawDict from a command prompt and pass the folder you want as the argument. I.e. HawDict "path\to\folder". HawDict will create the folder if necessary.

It only takes a minute to build the dictionaries, though it will take longer the very first time as HawDict needs to download the source data first. HawDict caches this (relatively large) raw data as *.html.tmp files to speed up dictionary creation in the future.

The end result will be several sub-folders (one per source dictionary) with the created dictionary files. The files will be named according to the direction of the translation (Hawaiian to English or English to Hawaiian) and can be of the following types:

• *.clean.txt: simple tab-delimited text file of terms and definitions
• *.dict.xdxf: XDXF structured XML file
• *.StarDict.*: StarDict formatted binary files
• *.html.tmp: temporary file with the raw HTML source data (helps reduce bandwidth usage)