Error when compiling sphinxbase in cygwin

Question

I tried to install sphinxbase on my Windows 7 using Cygwin for running pocketsphinx android demo. But I got the following error after executing make:

gcc -shared -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base build/temp.cygwin-1.7.11-i686-2.6/sphinxbase.o -L../src/libsphinxbase/.libs -L/usr/lib/python2.6/config -lsphinxbase -liconv -lpython2.6 -o build/lib.cygwin-1.7.11-i686-2.6/sphinxbase.dll
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
Makefile:471: recipe for target `pymod-build-stamp' failed
make[1]: *** [pymod-build-stamp] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/psph/sphinxbase/python'
Makefile:330: recipe for target `all-recursive' failed
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1.

I visited the link http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ecooper/CS4706/ps-cygwin.html and followed the steps, but to the same result. I have used pocketsphinx-0.7 and sphinxbase-0.7 in above situation.

Answer 1

The error:

ld: cannot find -liconv

means, that you don't have iconv installed. Look for the package with the name libiconv-dev or similar in your package manager.