festival and c++

ximiansavior · 12-03-2003, 10:46 PM

i want to use the festival libraries to write my own c++ program that uses festival.

the documentation gives the following:

Quote:

In order to use Festival you must include `festival/src/include/festival.h' which in turn will include the necessary other include files in `festival/src/include' and `speech_tools/include' you should ensure these are included in the include path for you your program. Also you will need to link your program with `festival/src/lib/libFestival.a', `speech_tools/lib/libestools.a', `speech_tools/lib/libestbase.a' and `speech_tools/lib/libeststring.a' as well as any other optional libraries such as net audio.

the includes are in the right place /usr/include/* but i'm new to gcc and when i use the link flag -L i get errors.

has anyone compiled a program with festival? can you give me a sample gcc command to get this to work? thanks.

MartinN · 12-04-2003, 12:26 AM

You also need to tell which libraries to link with using the flag -l (that's a lower-case L). The linking directive should look something like:

Code:

gcc -o myprogram mypart1.o mypart2.o ... mypartn.o -L /path/to/festivallibs -lFestival -lestools -lestbase -leststring

Since those libraries are static libraries (indicated by .a) you may need the flag -static also. But I'm not sure that you need that, so try without it first.

And of course, you'll want to write all this in a Makefile

If this didn't solve the problem, could you please tell exactly what the error messages are?

Regards
Martin