Re: Windows, Enchant and Aspell

[Matthew Talbert <ransom1982 gmail com>]

2009/2/8 Enrico Tröger <enrico troeger uvena de>:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed Tor has built enchant for Windows [1], great job. Cool.
>
> Being curious whether it works, I installed aspell and two dictionaries
> from their Windows installers, I used the default directory C:\Program
> Files \Aspell.
>
> Unfortunately and not really surprising, libenchant.dll or better the
> provider libenchant_aspell.dll, doesn't find the aspell-15.dll.
> Is there any way to tell enchant where to look for the installed aspell
> installation?
> Another problem is that libenchant_aspell.dll looks for
> "libaspell-15.dll" but the Aspell Windows installers install a
> "aspell-15.dll" (without the lib prefix).
>
> So, after all, how to use enchant with Aspell at all on Windows?

I just ran into this. What I did was install Aspell, change the name
of aspell-15.dll to libaspell-15.dll, copy everything over to my app's
directory, and it all just works.

Matthew