I reply to my own question for the sake of completeness. See below: % ================================================================ On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Rafael Jimenez wrote:
> Dear list, > > I have been able to compile and use aspell (both versions 0.50.3 and > 0.50.1) with success under Cygwin, using the following (TERM is set to > 'unknown'): > > ./configure --disable-curses && make > make install > > The problem is that when I use aspell to check file foo.txt (aspell -c > foo.txt), I have a problem when trying to fix a word that is mispelled. > > I can tell which word is mis-spelled because it is sarrounded by stars > (*), but when attempting to pick one of the offered choices, I'm told > "Sorry, this is an invalid choice." This seems to happen only with > numerical arguments, since the letter options such as 'x' or 'b' are > recognized. [...] % =============================== SOLUTION ==== It seems that people are trying to build an aspell package for cygwin, and they found the same problem (see thread after this message): http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-07/msg00222.html) The problem related to the fact that you have to link to the ncurses library. I installed the libncurses-devel package from cygwin setup. It puts libraries in /usr/lib and headers in /usr/include/ncurses. Then, I call configure with the following attributes: $ ./configure --enable-ncurses=/usr/lib/libncurses.dll.a --enable-curses-include=/usr/include/ncurses Finally, doing: make make install will install the program. Some messages of the type: Info: resolving _aerror_conflicting_flags by linking to __imp__aerror_conflicting_flags (auto-import) appear, without further problems. The compiled aspell executable now allows direct correction using the proposed numbered options from aspell. _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
