error while compiling speech_tools can not find -lcurses

Question

I get the following error when compiling speech_tools.

/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

It can't find -lcurses

Solution

This probably means you need to install lncurses (package: http://packages.ubuntu.com/nl/quantal/libncurses5-dev)

So ...

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

Comments

[Rinzwind]

Please leave a comment if my answer is not correct (can not test your problem here so it is partly a guess ;) )

[Dave]

@Rinzwind Yes ,it worked

[chronospoon]

If cross-compiling 32-bit on a 64-bit system, use lib32ncurses5-dev