The gspell package provides a flexible API to add spell checking to a GTK+ application.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gspell/1.14/gspell-1.14.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 282c1ed7213a657e47de663fd2a081db
Download size: 116 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.7 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with tests)
enchant-2.8.2, ICU-75.1, and GTK+-3.24.43
GLib-2.82.0 (with GObject Introspection), GTK-Doc-1.34.0, Vala-0.56.17, Valgrind-3.23.0, and Hunspell (for tests)
Install gspell by running the following commands:
mkdir gspell-build && cd gspell-build && meson setup --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. && 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