To build cdec, you'll need: * SRILM (register and download from http://www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/) * Google c++ testing framework (http://code.google.com/p/googletest/) * boost headers & boost program_options (you may need to install a package like boost-devel) Instructions for building ----------------------------------- 1) Download and build SRILM 2) Download, build, and install Google Test (optional, this is necessary to build unit tests that may be useful in development; system tests work without it) 3) Use automake / autoconf to generate the configure script. I'm not an expert at using these tools, but this should be sufficient: autoreconf -ifv 4) Configure and build. Your command will look something like this. ./configure --with-srilm=/home/me/software/srilm-1.5.9 --disable-gtest make If you get errors during configure about missing BOOST macros, then step 3 failed, and you need to keep working at it. If you get errors during the build, it's probably a problem with step 3 or possibly with some compiler version idiosyncracies (generally, I assume you have a relatively new of g++). 5) Test ./tests/run-system-tests.pl Everything should pass. 6) Enjoy!