gspell-1.14.0

Introduction to gspell

The gspell package provides a flexible API to add spell checking to a GTK+ application.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.3 platform.

Package Information

gspell Dependencies

Required

enchant-2.8.2, ICU-76.1, and GTK-3.24.48

Optional

GLib-2.82.4 (with GObject Introspection), GTK-Doc-1.34.0, Vala-0.56.17, Valgrind-3.24.0, and Hunspell (for tests)

Installation of gspell

Install gspell by running the following commands:

mkdir gspell-build &&
cd    gspell-build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -D gtk_doc=false .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test. The tests must be run in an X session. One test, test-checker, is known to fail if the external package Hunspell is not installed.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Command Explanations

-D gtk_doc=false: Prevents building the documentation. Remove this if you have GTK-Doc installed and wish to build the documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: gspell-app1
Installed Libraries: libgspell-1.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gspell-1 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gspell-1.0

Short Descriptions

gspell-app1

checks the spelling of a text entered in a window

libgspell-1.so

is the gspell API library