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

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

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?

Regards,
John Ralls



Regards,
John Ralls