Re: Windows, Enchant and Aspell

[Enrico TrÃger <enrico troeger uvena de>]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 14:12:20 -0500, Matthew Talbert
<ransom1982 gmail com> wrote:

> 2009/2/8 Enrico TrÃger <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.

Hmm yes. I tried this as well and it works. But this is kind of hard to
explain to users and it's not very convenient at all.
Furthermore, I don't want to ship Aspell with my application and
especially not the Aspell dictionaries. 


Regards,
Enrico

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