Subject: Re: Still unbuildable on Windows
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 05:51:09 CDT
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:40:38PM +1000, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> Sam TH wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:21:13PM +1000, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > > Is anyone else building for Windows? I'm still unable to build with
> > > the new spellchecking code. It looks like a compiler bug but so far
> > > I'm unable to reproduce the bug in a standalone example to submit to
> > > MS.
> > >
> > > Can anybody verify that MSVC6 won't build AbiWord or better yet
> > > provide a fix.
> > >
> > > Sorry to be a pain but I can't seem to fix this one myself. Here is
> > > the output:
> > >
> > > make ABI_ROOT=/home/administrator/abiword/abi -C spell build
> > > make[3]: Entering directory
> > > `/home/administrator/abiword/abi/src/other/spell'
> > > Building with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:On BiDi:Off Pspell:Off
> > > Scripting:Off].
> > > ispell_checker.cpp
> > > ispell_checker.cpp(139) : error C2511: 'checkWord' : overloaded member
> > > function 'enum SpellChecker::_SpellCheckResult (u
> > > nsigned short *,unsigned int)' not found in 'ISpellChecker'
> > > ispell_checker.h(6) : see declaration of 'ISpellChecker'
> >
> > I don't understand this at all. Is it saying that checkWord isn't
> > declared in ISpellChecker? That's just wrong.
>
> It seems to believe the pointer arguments are not declared const.
> In fact if you remove the const keyword it does compile. This
> makes no sense and indeed it doesn't link.
Oh, that. You mean the arguments to iconv(), right? If so, I'm
almost done with that fix.
>
> > One thing you could try would be to remove the virtual's in
> > ispell_checker.h. I suggest that only since those are the functions
> > it complains about.
>
> I'll try that now and report my progress.
>
> Andrew.
>
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