Hello,
I don't understand why our work on Aspell for Windows is still not yet
known but, FYI, the LyX project has long solved the Windows packaging
problem by forking Aspell. We use MSVC2008 in order to create the dlls
that can be found inside this archive:
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/lyx-windows-deps-msvc2008.zip
You will find other goodies like latest gettext and iconv.
We also maintains all knowns dictionnary in the latest format here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=12973
IMHO anyone willing to maintain the Aspell Windows port should talk to
us in order to avoid duplicated effort.
Abdel.
Laura nmi Michaels wrote:
A lot of people on the SciTE mailing list (and probably other text editors
groups too) have been clamoring for a spell-checker to work with their
favorite editor. I thought if I could find a decent C/C++ library that
handled spelling, I could write some code to output the results in a format
similar to the error messages from the gnu C/C++ and mingw C/C++ compilers.
When I found out aspell had such a library, I decided to download a copy of
the latest version 0.60.6 and test out my idea. As I was trying to compile
the library with mingw and msys, I kept asking myself how did anyone get
this working on Windows. After searching the Internet for 4 fixes to
various issues I came across, I finally got the library and aspell program
to build. I went back to the aspell web site to locate some documentation
on the C/C++ library API and I noticed the Win32 page doesn't have the
latest version of aspell. So, I guess people aren't getting this to compile
on Windows.
I have some diffs to get aspell 0.60.6 compiling properly with mingw and
msys. I also have a request for an additional program that I would really
like to see added to the examples directory. I cannibalized the example-c.c
code to come up with something that would spell check a file and output
results to stdout in the error format used by gnu gcc. I think this or
something like it would be a really useful example to add for anyone who's
been wanting to run aspell with a decent programming editor. Hopefully
others could help contribute and make it a better and more robust program,
since the changes I made were quick ones just to get proof of concept.
The diffs for aspell on mingw with msys are included below. I also have
some Windows executables. I have library files in .a format, but
the ./configure, make, make install process doesn't appear to have created
any dlls. I don't remember having any problems installing the English
dictionary files using the ./configure, make, make install process under
msys. If you need executable files and/or library (.a files) packaged a
certain way, let me know and I can send them to someone if they want to
distribute them further. The source code I wrote for better integrating
aspell with a programming editor is at:
http://www.distasis.com/cpp/aspellstdout.c
It can be compiled with mingw using the command:
g++ -o aspellstdout.exe aspellstdout.c -I\mingw\msys\local\include -L
\mingw\msys\lib -L \mingw\msys\local\lib -ldl -laspell -lintl -
lgettextlib.dll -ldl.dll
I also compiled it on DeLi Linux using the command:
g++ -o aspellstdout aspellstdout.c -I/usr/local/include -L /usr/lib -
L /usr/local/lib -ldl -laspell -lintl
On Windows, I'm using the basic libraries such as libiconv and libintl from
the GnuWin32 project, http://sourceforge.net/project/gnuwin32 I'm using the
libdl library from:
http://code.google.com/p/dlfcn-win32/downloads/list
Be sure to add the patch for extern C on the issues page. That was one of
the fixes I needed to make to get things to compile. I'm using the latest
copy of pdcurses from Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/pdcurses
Don't know if it's needed, but I have my .profile file (used by msys) set up
as mentioned here: http://www.distasis.com/cpp/mingw.htm#whatismsys
The examples in the example directory didn't compile when I used the
makefile. Was able to get example-c to compile from command line in a
standard command prompt with the following command:
g++ -o example-c.exe example-c.c -I\mingw\msys\local\include -L
\mingw\msys\lib -L \mingw\msys\local\lib -ldl -laspell -lintl -
lgettextlib.dll -ldl.dll
To run the example-c.exe afterwards, you need libdl.dll, libicon2.dll,
libintl3.dll in the same directory or in the path.
Here are the patches I needed for mingw and msys:
\mingw\msys\bin\diff \mingw\msys\home\old\aspell-0.60.6\common\config.hpp
\mingw\msys\home\new\aspell-0.60.6\common\config.hpp
15a16,19
#ifdef __MINGW32__
#define libintl_printf printf
#endif
\mingw\msys\bin\diff \mingw\msys\home\old\aspell-0.60.6\common\file
_util.cpp \mingw\msys\home\new\aspell-0.60.6\common\file_util.cpp
15a16
#include "asc_ctype.hpp"
\mingw\msys\bin\diff \mingw\msys\home\old\aspell-0.60.6
\modules\speller\default\language.cpp \mingw\msys\home\michaelsl\new\aspell-
0.60.6\modules\spell
er\default\language.cpp
23d22
< #ifndef __MINGW32__
26d24
< #endif
Best wishes.
Laura
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