*Debian Buster *Geany-plugins v1.37 *Geany (git) built with GTK 3 enabled
The 'libenchat-dev' package is required to build the spellcheck plugin; however, I didn't find that information in /README.md or in https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/tree/master/spellcheck.
"you need to have the Enchant library installed" -- README
To build anything you always need the development versions of libraries installed _if your distro separates them_. And different distros call the separated development packages different things, `libenchant-dev` on Debian and derivatives, `enchant-devel` on Fedora and other headgear, and probably other things elsewhere.
So its not a simple "install XXX" so its generally assumed in Geany and plugins that people building the software understand what they are doing and how their distro works.
My big problem was that I haven't been doing much coding lately and am getting a bit rusty in the head. I was trying to find the .pc file and preceding './configure' with PKG_CONFIG_PATH... forgetting that I needed to install libenchant-dev. Fortunately I only lost 5 minutes of my life.
Closed #1050.
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