I am trying to install kaldi on a windows computer using cygwin. When I run ./tools/check_dependencies.sh (as requested in the INSTALL file) I get "zlib is not installed", so I go to the cygwin package list and try to install. The thing is - there is no "zlib" per say see snapshot there are all kinds of packages but their execution name is not "zlib" (except one which is irrelevant), it's always something-zlib-somthing.
And so I end up getting the same message even after I install them. The code in check_dependencies.sh that does that is:
if ! echo "#include " | $CXX -E - >&/dev/null; then echo "$0: zlib is not installed." add_packages zlib-devel zlib1g-dev zlib-devel fi
I understood there is no (relevant) way of installing zlib directly with cygwin - so that's a dead end.
Anyway I tried to make it work but no success - your help is very much appreciated.