/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lasound

Question

While using the make command on snowboy in the folder snowboy/examples/C/ I got the following errors

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf77blas
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcblas
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack_atlas
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -latlas
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lasound

I have manage to solve all of them exapt -lasound with the command

sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev

How can I add the missing library -lasound

Answer 1

There is commented line inside the file install_portaudio.sh which states

# On linux systems, we only build with ALSA, so make sure you install it using
# e.g.:
#   sudo apt-get -y install libasound2-dev

So just run the command sudo apt-get -y install libasound2-dev in the terminal and it should work.