#439 hunspell include under macOS

[Dorian Black]

Hi.

First off - I've no idea how your project works internally, so I wont be the one to fix this issue.
The file 'src/plugins/contrib/SpellChecker/HunspellInterface.cpp' tries to include 'hunspell/hunspell.hxx', wich would be fine if it would add '/usr/local/lib' (in my case) to the include paths, where 'hunspell' is located, instead of '/usr/lib/hunspell'. I resolved the issue by copying hunspell to the directory.
This has to be something platform dependend, as it probably works under linux & windows just fine (I didn't find anyone stating something different), and does something weird und macOS.

I am using macOS Sierra (that's the newest version).

[Dorian Black]

A little addition: Installing with homebrew or installing manually doesn't make a difference. But I don't think that this is important for resolving the issue.

[Franko F]

Hi!
This issue is with Your installation of hunspell.

How did You install hunspell?

Check installed hunspell like this:

$ pkg-config --exists "hunspell"
$ echo $?
0
$ pkg-config --cflags --libs "hunspell"
-I/usr/local/Cellar/hunspell/1.4.1_1/include/hunspell -L/usr/local/Cellar/hunspell/1.4.1_1/lib -lhunspell-1.4

check config.log in codeblocks for hunspell

pkg_cv_HUNSPELL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/Cellar/hunspell/1.4.1_1/include/hunspell
pkg_cv_HUNSPELL_LIBS='-L/usr/local/Cellar/hunspell/1.4.1_1/lib -lhunspell-1.4'

regards
frankofrank

[Dorian Black]

It does output roughly the same it outputs for you, just in another directory. I installed it using

$ wget ...
$ tar -xzf ...
$ cd hunspell
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

The problem is that it tries to include "hunspell/hunspell.hxx", which would work with just '/usr/local/include' added to the include paths, but that simply isn't the case.

[Franko F]

Ok. But check again config.log in codeblocks, autoconf adds include directory and libs for hunspell, if finds installed package.

In codeblocks check options for configure:
./configure --help

Some influential environment variables:
...
HUNSPELL_CFLAGS
C compiler flags for HUNSPELL, overriding pkg-config
HUNSPELL_LIBS
linker flags for HUNSPELL, overriding pkg-config

so You can configure codebloks like this:
HUNSPELL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/lib HUNSPELL_LIBS=-lhunspell ./configure

[Andrew Cottrell]

I was able to build C::B on mac earlier this year using the attached guide I did.