sphinx3_decode.exe crashes in windows

[utkarsh]

i have downloaded and built sphinxTrain, sphinxbase and sphinx3 in windows
7(32 bit) using the nightly versions from cmusphinx.
after successfully training with the AN4 model (NIST's sph format from
www.speech.cs.cmu.edu), when i try to deocde the model, the following is
displayed in cmd prompt:

Decoding 130 segments starting at 0 (part 1 of 1)
0%

and "sphinx3_decode.exe has stopped working" is prompted with the following
details:

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name: sphinx3_decode.exe
  Application Version:  0.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp:    4efbf6f0
  Fault Module Name:    ntdll.dll
  Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16695
  Fault Module Timestamp:   4cc7ab44
  Exception Code:   c0000005
  Exception Offset: 0002fa7b
  OS Version:   6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
  Locale ID:    1033
  Additional Information 1: 0a9e
  Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3: 0a9e
  Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Also, on debugging the application with Visual Studio In-time-Debugger, i get
the following error is identified:

Unhandled exception at 0x7731fa7b in sphinx3_decode.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation writing location 0x00000014.[\code]

I have tried the following without help:
1.tried all the above using cygwin, but same problem
2.ensured that sphinx3_decode.exe and sphinxbase.dll is present in "....\an4\bin"
3.put sphinxbase.dll and s3decoder.dll in "C:\Perl\bin", on reading one of the threads
4.added "...sphinxbase\bin\Release" and "...sphinx3\bin\release" to PATH environment variable.
5.Also, the svn snapshots of sphinxbase, sphinx3 fail to build on my system.

Please tell me how to solve the problem?

[utkarsh]

i use this command to decode:

 perl scripts_pl\decode\slave.pl

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

Also, the svn snapshots of sphinxbase, sphinx3 fail to build on my system.
Please tell me how to solve the problem?

Describe what exact issue do you have to build sphinx3 and sphinxbase
snapshots.

[utkarsh]

the sphinxbase.sln of svn snapshots was writtrn for visual studio format
version 10.00 and would not execute. so (after googling) i replaced the first
2 lines of the .sln:

Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 11.00
# Visual C++ Express 2010

with:

Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 10.00
# Visual C++ Express 2008

the .sln then opens in visual studio but the visual studio conversion wizard
automatically opens up citing:

The solution or project you are opening was created in a previous version of Visual studio. It must be converted to the format used by this version.....

After the process is finished, none of the .vcxproj are correctly converted
preventing building of the executables. the following error is generated for
each .vcxproj:

 Conversion issues- sphinx_fe:
cannot load the file due to corrupt project file

Also, I matched the .sln files of the nightly version and svn snapshots (or
those in download section of cmusphinx.sourceforge) word-by-word, but i could
find no difference. what can be the problem in format conversion?

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

It seems you are doing something wrong about the snapshots. Recent snapshots
compile just fine with VS2010. You can find a link to download them on our
download page:

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/download

You are also recommended to read the latest tutorial

http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/tutorial

[utkarsh]

i know the snapshots work fine with VS2010. But they should be backward
compatible to VS2008 also. I thought I dint need to install VS2010 if i have
VS2008 which works fine for me. Was i wrong?

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

You need VS2010 to work with CMUSphinx.