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 _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list Aspell-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
