Part I. Introduction

gspell provides a flexible API to add spell checking to a GTK application. See the gspell website.

pkg-config name

The pkg-config name of the gspell library is: gspell-1

To compile a program that uses gspell, you can for example use the following command:

$ gcc hello.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs gspell-1` -o hello

How to enable inline spell checking in a GtkTextView

See the gspell_text_view_basic_setup() convenience function to quickly enable inline spell checking in a GtkTextView widget.

How to enable inline spell checking in a GtkEntry

See the gspell_entry_basic_setup() convenience function to quickly enable inline spell checking in a GtkEntry widget.