[Aspell-user] aspell-0.50.4.1 doesn't build under CygWin

[Ken Turner]

I'm using a recent (Dec 2003) version of CygWin. Most of the build goes OK
until:

  /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=link g++  -g -O2   -o libpspell.la -rpath
  /usr/local/lib  -version-info 15:2:0 dummy.lo libaspell.la

  *** Warning: This system can not link to static lib archive libaspell.la.
  *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when
  *** you link to this library.  But I can only do this if you have a
  *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have.
  libtool: link: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in i686-pc-cygwin shared
libraries

which I take to be a harmless warning. However when example-c.c is built I get:

  gcc -g -O2 -o example-c.exe example-c.o  ../lib/.libs/libaspell.a

  example-c.o(.text+0x2d): In function `print_word_list':

  /tmp/aspell-0.50.4.1/examples/example-c.c:21: undefined reference to
  `_aspell_word_list_elements'

  example-c.o(.text+0x44):/tmp/aspell-0.50.4.1/examples/example-c.c:23:
  undefined reference to `_aspell_string_enumeration_next'

  example-c.o(.text+0x87):/tmp/aspell-0.50.4.1/examples/example-c.c:19:
  undefined reference to `_aspell_speller_error_message'

and many similar errors. These entries don't seem to be defined in libaspell.a
at all. Perhaps
ominously, libpspell.a is almost empty.

Thanks, Ken Turner


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