Re: [Aspell-user] Help configuring library

[Ian Sidor]

Hi sorry for the late reply.

I found the libs in the directory you suggested. The problem was that Mac OSX 
hides directories with a preceding '.' and therefore I simply couldn't see it.

However, I'm having trouble linking the libraries into my project. Let me 
explain more about what I'm doing....

I'm using XCode on Mac OSX and I'm writing an application that runs on iOS 
devices (iPhone/iPod/iPad). I would like to use Aspell to do some spell 
checking which means I need to configure a static library as there is no other 
option on iOS.

iOS devices use ARM architecture and the Simulator uses i386.

When it comes to configuring makefiles, I'm pretty much a fish out of water ... 
almost zero experience. How to I configure Aspell to build a library that will 
work within my project?

I suspect I will need to generate a dylib that is a universal binary (like most 
things on Mac).

This is the current error when I link with the default configuration:

(Simulator Build)
ld: warning: in libpspell.15.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format 
which is not the architecture being linked (i386)

(Device Build)
ld: warning: in libpspell.15.dylib, file was built for unsupported file format 
which is not the architecture being linked (armv6)


On 31 Jan 2011, at 20:36, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Ian Sidor wrote:
> 
>> Hello, I'm new to Aspell. I'm looking for a dictionary SDK that can be used 
>> in my own application.
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>>> ./configure --enable-static
>>> make
>> 
>> .. but I couldn't find a dylib afterwards.
> 
> I do not know what I dylib is, but due to the way libtool works the static 
> library can be found in the ".libs" dir under the name ".libs/libaspell.a".