Hi Abdelrazak, Two things: 1. I would be interested in potentially maintaining Aspell for Windows packaging 2. The ftp link is no longer valid: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/lyx-windows-deps-msvc2008.zip can you please provide an updated link as I've searched the directories.
Lee Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aspell-devel mailing list > Aspell-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/aspell-0.60.6-on-Windows-and-using-libaspell-with-SciTE-tp17094274p33211975.html Sent from the Gnu - Aspell - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list Aspell-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
