On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 07:17:48PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Nicolas Montgermont hat gesagt: // Nicolas Montgermont wrote: > > > Has anybody developped a way to check the existence of a word in a given > > dictionnary? > > As a basis, I was looking at the aspell command line spell checking tool > > : http://aspell.net/ > > This is well suited, but it will need to use the shell object and I'm > > working under OSX, so I'm not sure of it's long term stability. > > Aspell can be used as a lib also, so i was wondering if anyone has ever > > developped an external based on it? > > Or has anyone some other ideas to do that? > > You could use Lua instead. It's like [shell] on steroids, if you > employ something like "io.popen" like this: > > word = get_word_from_inlet() > cmd = "aspell -c " .. word > p = assert(io.popen(cmd)) > result = p:read("*all") > > Lua is trivial to build on OS-X. I just did it and I'm a complete OS-X > idiot. Here's how: You check out pdlua from goto10 subversion, edit > Makefile.static to let it find m_pd.h and build for OS-X ("PLATFORM = > macosx"), then do "make -f Makefile.static" while connected to the net > to let make download and build Lua for you and that's it. OS-X seems > to come with everything needed.
Hi Frank, Did you have to install the XCode developer kit (or whatever it's called) to do this? Or is there a built in compiler? What version of OSX is it? Thx for the help, sorry for the OT! Chris. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list