pocketsphinx tutorial won't compile

[Kaleb Goering]

I installed both sphinxbase and pocketsphinx just fine. I checked both

    pkg-config --variable=modeldir pocketsphinx

and

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
pkg-config --cflags --libs pocketsphinx sphinxbase
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

They both return the expected value but when I try to compile with

    gcc -o hello_ps hello_ps.c / -DMODELDIR="`pkg-config --variable=modeldir pocketsphinx`"      / `pkg-config --cflags --libs pocketsphinx sphinxbase`
    <command-line>:0:10: error: expected expression before ‘/’ token
    hello_ps.c:15:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘MODELDIR’
             "-hmm", MODELDIR "/en-us/en-us",

is returned. I have tried defining MODELDIR in the C file but get same error. If I use \ instead of / I get more errors.

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

You need to use exact command line as provided in tutorial with \" as a part of MODELDIR definition.

In order to understand what do those symbols mean and how do they work you can review documentation on shell:

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Quoting

[Kaleb Goering]

When I do that I get

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
gcc: error: -DMODELDIR="/usr/local/share/pocketsphinx/model": No such file or directory
gcc: error: -I/usr/local/include: No such file or directory
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I have checked both of those directories exist and the files the program wants are in the correct directory.

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

Please provide the full command line and the full compiler output. Please try to follow the tutorial precisely, if you do everything properly it should work.