It *might* be worth it to use a chroot to ensure dependencies don't get bungled up.
~/compile/lame-3.99 $ ./configure checking build system type... armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... armv7l-unknown-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... no checking for awk... awk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: in `/home/user/compile/lame-3.99': configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details