RE: [Aspell-user] newbie-how do I install the program

[Frank Buzin]

> Hi Frank,
> I'm sorry, I should have including in my notes how to get a free
> (as in beer) c++ compiler. You may use Borland's BCB5.5 command
> line tools. You do have to adjust the config files and run make,
> but I'm sure most users will be able to handle it.
> ... <snip>
> Extract the source files in descdatadiary_0_3_0.zip.
> Edit the bc.mak file. You will need to modify the last section to
> indicate where the include directory for BCB5.5 is. Change the
> following line:
> -IC:\BC55\INCLUDE
> Change "C:\BC55\INCLUDE" to the actual include directory.
> Run the make program from the bcb bin directory with command line
> arguments "-f bc.mak". In my case the command is
> c:\bc55\bin\make -f bc.mak
> The result is diary2.exe.

Just for clarity for the true newbies (which I most certainly am when it 
comes to aspell), it would be a few more steps than that... For one, there 
are two bc.mak files to edit (assuming they actually want to build your 
dairy2.exe as your example shows). One in your project directory (i.e. where 
they extracted the source files in descdatadiary_0_3_0.zip), and the other 
one in aspell-0.60.1-win32 subdirectory below that. So if they took the 
defaults on the borland compiler install, they would want to edit both 
bc.mak files and replace all occurances of 'C:\BC55' with 
'C:\Borland\BCC55'. This would be 2 changes in one bc.mak and 5 in the 
other. Then per the borland documentation, create  a iLink32.cfg file in the 
project directory, add the line:
-LC:\Borland\Bcc55\lib
to it. Next you can adjust the path to include C:\Borland\BCC55\Bin or you 
can create a simply batch file (place it in the project directory too) to do 
it on the fly and call make. Ex. create makedairy2.cmd:
::------------------------------
@Echo off
SetLocal

Set BCB55BinDir=C:\Borland\BCC55\Bin

Set Path=%BCB55BinDir%;%Path%

If not exist %systemroot%\system32\cc3250.dll (
 copy %BCB55BinDir%\cc3250.dll  %systemroot%\system32\cc3250.dll
)

If not exist %systemroot%\system32\cc3250mt.dll (
 copy %BCB55BinDir%\cc3250mt.dll  %systemroot%\system32\cc3250mt.dll
)

%BCB55BinDir%\make.exe -f bc.mak

EndLocal
::------------------------------

If you go this route and don't want to permanently alter your path to 
include C:\Borland\BCC55\Bin, the runtime libraries cc3250.dll and 
cc3250mt.dll from C:\Borland\BCC55\Bin will need to be put somewhere in your 
path (the batch file above puts them in %systemroot%\system32 if they aren't 
there already). Run the batch file and a few gazillion warnings later you 
have the binaries.

This will get you an aspell built named bc.exe, which you can copy to 
aspell.exe, or you can edit the mak file and replace bc.exe with aspell.exe 
in the two places it occurs if you have no intention of using the diary app. 
Aspell built this way 'appears' to work in the few few limited tests I tried 
it with, but this is not the manner I have been using so I may have missed 
someting too..  On an aside I did fire up diary2 and it worked fine up until 
I tried the use 'manage Word Lists' and browse for one. I may hit your 
sourceforge forum with that tomorrow.

Frank