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I set up a Ubuntu VM today just to build Festival on Ubuntu (I never ran it before) Then I did the following setups

  1. On the Terminal window I wrote following to install GNU C++ Compiler

    sudo apt-get install build-essential

  2. To test the g++ I wrote a sample hello world and compiled it using g++ and run it and it worked as expected.

  3. I downloaded all the files from listed on festival download page

  4. Unpacked all to the home directory(~) using 

    tar -zxvf *.tar.gz

  5. Then wrote following 3 commands to configure and make speech_tools

    cd speech_tools

./configure

make

But make returns with following errors

/lib -leststring -lcurses -ldl -lncurses -lm -lstdc++ -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcurses
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [ch_lab] Error 1
make: *** [main] Error 2

What am I missing? being a newbie to Ubuntu or any other Unix platform I may missed some important configuration, before that I have successfully built festival on my windows machine using Cygwin.

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Mubashar
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  • I tried the same on CentOS as well and here is the same problem, unable to find those two libs or whatever they are. :( – Mubashar Feb 24 '11 at 08:09

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You probably need to install the development packages for libncurses. Try

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
Gintautas Miliauskas
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  • It worked, The error is gone but now its saying ... ../bin/festival: error while loading shared libraries: libestbase.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [festival.options] Error 127 – Mubashar Feb 24 '11 at 08:21
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    the above mentioned file is placed in ~/speech_tools/lib how to tell the ~/festival/make that the you can find the lib in above mentioned directories??? – Mubashar Feb 24 '11 at 08:31
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    I changed the ~/speech_tools/config/config file and replaced #SHARED=2 with SHARED=1, And Its worked. – Mubashar Feb 24 '11 at 09:25