Building a program using GtkSpell: GtkSpell Reference Manual

## Building a program using GtkSpell

The instructions below are written for the GTK+3 variant. For the GTK+2 variant, if it was compiled, it is sufficient to replace `gtkspell-3.0` with `gtkspell-2.0` and `gtk+-3.0` with `gtk+-2.0`.

### Simple Programs

The program must be compiled with the GtkSpell C flags and built with the GtkSpell libs. Depending on how your program is compiled, you must include the module `gtkspell-3.0` along with `gtk+-3.0` in your calls to pkg-config.

### Building Using Autoconf

In `configure.ac`, modify the call to `PKG_CHECK_MODULES` to include `gtkspell-3.0`, like this:

    PKG_CHECK_MODULES(MYPROGRAM, gtk+-3.0 gtkspell-3.0)

To pass the necessary flags to the compiler, you should add `@MYPROGRAM_CFLAGS@` and `@MYPROGRAM_LIBS@` to the respective `Makefile.am`, i.e.

    AM_CPPFLAGS = @MYPROGRAM_CFLAGS@
    mylibrary_la_LIBADD = @MYPROGRAM_LIBS@

For the substitutions to work, you need to add to `configure.ac` the lines

    AC_SUBST(MYPROGRAM_CFLAGS)
    AC_SUBST(MYPROGRAM_LIBS)