Re: Windows port - native

Abdelrazak Younes <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:58:09 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.aspell.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gora Mohanty wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 00:54 -0400, Nicolas Hatier wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I developed a native Windows port of aspell, to be able to easily
>> build it in MS Visual Studio. 
>>
>> The current MinGW solution has been quite handy, but I was asked to
>> create a 64-bit version aspell on Windows, and MinGW does not
>> currently provide any 64-bit capability.
> [...]
> 
> Yes, I for one, would be very interested as I have had people express
> similar requirements, but have no knowledge of programming on Windows,
> and with MSVC++. You can, of course, submit a patch at the aspell
> project page, http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=245
> 
> Can you put it up somewhere for download in the meantime? If you need
> hosting space, we can arrange for some. Please contact me off-list in
> this case.

FYI, the LyX project has been doing that for years. The MSVC compiled 
dll is distributed with LyX and the dictionaries are available here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6

Abdel.