Re: Windows port - native

Nicolas Hatier wrote:
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> My first goal (after creating the port) was to have it somewhat 
> integrated in the official aspell. I saw the features set-prefix and 
> ENABLE_WIN32_RELOCATABLE were working in the past, but were forgotten 
> afterwards and stopped working.
> 
> Starting a project based on aspell is less appealing for me. If I can 
> contribute to enhance the official package, without necessarily starting 
> another spin-off, I think this will be better for everyone.

That was our goal too:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1507425&group_id=245&atid=300245

The patch has been there for more than a year.

Abdel.

> 
> Nicolas
> 
> Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
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