--- In icsi-speech-tools@yahoogroups.com, "francisspeech"
<francisspeech@...> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've been trying to install quicknet3.11 on Cygwin under Windows XP,
> but without any success. I followed instructions for "basic
> installation", and the procedure stopped for "make" and generated
> following error message.
> cygpath: can't convert empty path
> /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../libcygwin.a(libcmain.o)
> :: undefined reference to '_WinMain@16'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [libquicknet3.a] Error 1

I've replicated the error with the current version of cygwin. The
problem is an incompatibility between libtool 1.3 and the current
version of cygwin. According to the cygwin mailing list, the problem
is corrected in libtool 1.5.

There's an easy workaround for the cygpath error (adding -i to the
cygpath command in libtool), but I haven't found a workaround for the
link error yet.

With any luck, the new version of libtool won't break anything, and
just upgrading libtool in the quicknet release will fix the problem
without introducing any new problems.

Adam