Re: [Gtk-osx-users] Are you using Enchant/GtkSpell using AppleSpell backend?

[Dwayne Bailey <dwayne translate org za>]

On 2011-06-21 21:17, Eric Le Lay wrote:
> Hi,
> there is progress on the MacPorts front as well (I'm not involved in it
> at all):
> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2011-June/014999.html
> Hopes this helps...
That commit is from the person I've been working with from Abiword.

I've picked up a bigger problem in my experiments.  Enchant loads 
modules for each spell checker provider, these seem to be hard coded to 
/Users/dev/gtk/inst/lib/enchant - so I need to check where it gets those 
and how we can make them relative.

I guess because it doesn't go through the actual dynamic module loading 
we can't use any of the rewrite magic that is there when we load shared 
libraries.  Or am I wrong?
> Cheers,
> Eric
>
> Le 21/06/2011 10:30, Dwayne Bailey a écrit :
>> On 2011-06-17 16:11, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:05 AM, Dwayne Bailey wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm using enchant and gtkspell for spell checking in our app.  This
>>>> works nicely on Mac but it doesn't use the Apple spell checkers by
>>>> default.  Enchant does have an AppleSpell backend if you pass
>>>> -DXP_TARGET_COCOA which I tried and just got some amazing tracebacks
>>>> which seem to be GCC trying to include ObjC code while compiling C.
>>>>
>>>> I'm busy asking for help from people over at AbiWord - where Enchant lives.
>>>>
>>>> Before trying to solve this on my own I was wondering if anyone had
>>>> tried to build Enchant with the AppleSpell backend?  I'm pretty sure
>>>> this would be helpful to others porting their GTK apps to Mac to make it
>>>> even more native by using the users existing spell checkers.
>>>>
>>>> If you are a bit more skilled at the GNU build toolchain and GCC
>>>> compiling then I am I'd love some help.
>>> Yeah, that would be great for Gramps.
>>> Isn't there a configure option to set the cocoa target that sets everything up for you?
>> I made some good progress on this, for a non-*C* developer.  I'm getting
>> some help from an Abiword developer which is we're at the stage where
>> there is a --enable-applespell when you are compiling on OS X.  So
>> hopefully we're not too far off.
>>


-- 
regards
Dwayne


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