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Voikko
Installation from source on Mac OS X

The following notes are information for advanced users only. They have been assembled on Mac OS X version 10.5.

Things that work:

• libvoikko and its dependecies can be build, and the library and test tools voikkospell and voikkohyphenate work correctly.
• tmispell-voikko was built successfully (Enchant support has not been tested). The resulting tmispell binary works, except for the interactive ncurses frontend.
• openoffice.org-voikko works after some build system hacking.
• Operating system spelling service (trunk/osxspell in SVN) provides spell checking, spelling suggestions and grammar checking, but no grammar suggestions (they are not yet supported by libvoikko either). Almost no testing has been done. See screenshot for a more colourful summary.

The following build procedure assumes that $PREFIX is the directory to which all components will be installed. The instructions are rather brief, but you should be able to follow them if you have experience on building software using GNU autotools. Unreleased versions refer to current SVN trunk.

• Install Xcode tools from the OS X installation CD.
• Set some environment variables:

  export PATH=$PREFIX/bin:$PATH
  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig
  

• Build and install pkg-config 0.23:

  ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
  make
  make install
  

• Build and install GNU libiconv 1.9.2:

  ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-static
  make
  make install
  

• Build and install GNU gettext 0.17:

  ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
  make
  make install
  

• Build and install Glib 2.12.13:

  CFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include -L$PREFIX/lib" ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX \
    --enable-static
  make
  make install
  

• Build and install Malaga 7.11:

  CFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include -L$PREFIX/lib" ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
  make
  make install
  

• Build and install Suomi-malaga 1.0:

  make voikko
  make voikko-install DESTDIR=$PREFIX/lib/voikko
  

• Build and install libvoikko 1.7:

  CFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include -L$PREFIX/lib" ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX \
    --with-dictionary-path=$PREFIX/lib/voikko
  make
  make install
  

• Build and install tmispell-voikko 0.6.3:

  CPPFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include" LDFLAGS="-L$PREFIX/lib" \
    ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --disable-enchant
  make
  make install
  

  Copy the provided tmispell.conf.example to $PREFIX/etc/tmispell.conf
• Build openoffice.org-voikko 2.2 by following the instructions in README, and install it by using the OpenOffice.org extension manager.
• Fetch trunk/osxspell from SVN and open VoikkoSpellService.xcodeproj in Xcode. Fix necessary paths to libvoikko and build. Install by copying build results under ~/Library/Services. NOTE: You need at least versio 2.0 (or SVN trunk) of libvoikko for this!

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