c++ - sclite (SCTK) install, file not recognized, file format not recognized, Cygwin

Question

I am currently trying to install NIST's sclite, which is part of SCTK 2.4.0 (github or current version). I am attempting the install on Cygwin in bash. The installation is done using make.

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What I've Done

I made a directory for the install and navigated to that directory

mkdir sctk2.4.0
cd sctk2.4.0

( You'll possibly need $ cd /path/to/dir/sctk2.4.0 .)

I cloned the project from github

git clone https://github.com/chinshr/sctk.git

navigated into the base folder

cd sctk

then I started following the instructions in the INSTALL file.

Running

make config

worked fine, but after typing

make all

I got the output that follows

(mkdir -p bin)
(cd src; make all)
make[1]: Entering directory '/cygdrive/c/David/programs/sctk2.4.0/sctk/src'
(cd asclite; make all)
make[2]: Entering directory '/cygdrive/c/David/programs/sctk2.4.0/sctk/src/asclite'
(cd core; make all)
make[3]: Entering directory '/cygdrive/c/David/programs/sctk2.4.0/sctk/src/asclite/core'
g++ -o asclite -g -Os  alignment.o segment.o sgml_reportgenerator.o alignedsegmentiterator.o reportgenerator.o speechset.o segmentsgroup.o logger.o tokenalignment.o sgml_generic_reportgenerator.o recording.o statistics.o compressedlevenshteinmatrix.o segmentor.o id.o trntrn_segmentor.o linestyle_inputparser.o inputparser.o levenshteinmatrix.o levenshtein.o uemfilter.o speakermatch.o spkrautooverlap.o graphalignedsegment.o rawsys_reportgenerator.o graphalignedtoken.o timedobject.o stt_scorer.o aligner.o arraylevenshteinmatrix.o graph.o main.o trn_inputparser.o alignedspeech.o token.o alignedsegment.o graph_coordinate.o rttm_inputparser.o scorer.o properties.o ctmstmrttm_segmentor.o filter.o speech.o alignedspeechiterator.o stm_inputparser.o checker.o ctm_inputparser.o lzma/LzFind.o lzma/LzmaEnc.o lzma/Alloc.o lzma/LzmaLib.o lzma/LzmaDec.o -lm
alignment.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [makefile:62: asclite] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/David/programs/sctk2.4.0/sctk/src/asclite/core'
make[2]: *** [makefile:12: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/David/programs/sctk2.4.0/sctk/src/asclite'
make[2]: *** [makefile:12: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/David/programs/sctk2.4.0/sctk/src'
make: *** [makefile:20: all] Error 2

I've looked at this SO post, but I've determined that the alignment.o file is not corrupted. Just in case, I tried a few make clean and even re-cloned the project from github, but I still get the same error.

Can anyone help me complete this installation, or at least get to the next step?

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System Details

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 MyMachine 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:16 x86_64 Cygwin
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release (x86_64-unknown-cygwin) ...
$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 6.4.0 ...
$ g++ --version
g++ (GCC) 6.4.0 ...
$ make --version
GNU Make 4.2.1
Built for x86_64-unknown-cygwin ...
$ systeminfo | sed -n 's/^OS *//p'
Name:                   Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise
Version:                6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Manufacturer:           Microsoft Corporation
Configuration:          Member Workstation
Build Type:             Multiprocessor Free

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Note

I'm asking about this problem and then giving an answer to my own question. (I like that StackOverflow is allowing us to do that.) Hopefully, this will make it easier for people to help me with the problems I ran into further in the installation.

The next problem I ran into is discussed here. You can see this next problem in the answer to this problem.

Answer 1

This is the 'EASIER' solution.

Here are the details on what I called "the kaldi solution". Right now, it's just a list of commands without details. As shown here, these commands will install a sclite-2.4.10 directory under the $HOME (~) directory:

$ cd
$ git clone https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi.git
$ cd kaldi/tools
$ extras/check_dependencies.sh
$ make -j $(nproc --all)
$ cp -R sctk-2.4.10 ~/
$ cd
$ rm -rf kaldi
$ cd sctk-2.4.10/
$ cp $HOME/.bashrc "${HOME}/.bashrc.$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).bak"
$ echo -e "

## Allow access to sclite, rfilter, etc" >> $HOME/.bashrc
$ echo 'export PATH='"$(pwd)/bin"':$PATH' >> $HOME/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc

See this question/answer for details on how to use it on Windows.