Hunspell for Java

Provides Java bindings and wrappers for Hunspell 1.7. We generate JNA bindings with jnaerator and wrap the automatically generated bindings.

Upgrading libhunspell

The libhunspell source code is included as a git submodule under src/main/cpp/hunspell. Update the submodule and then rebuild hunspell.

Building libhunspell

Building for Linux is fairly straightforward. Install required build dependencies hunspell documentation. After installing dependencies, the following steps should work. If it doesn't, refer to the build instructions of hunspell.

git submodule init
git submodule update
cd src/main/cpp/hunspell
autoreconf -vfi
./configure
make
cp src/hunspell/.libs/libhunspell-1.7.so ../../resources/org/bridj/lib/linux_x64/libhunspell.so

The last step copies the dynamic library to the appropriate resource folder (assuming you build on a 64 bit system). You can use strip to save some space on debug symbols.

Building for Windows is tricky because we want to create a dll that statically links most dependencies. In general we want to create a static library with MXE and then create a dynamic library from these static sources, including statically build runtime dependencies.

After building libhunspell for all desired platforms and moving the binaries to the proper resources folder, you can use the usual maven lifecycle to build, test, package and deploy the java side of things. For example to generate jars run mvm package.