[Osgeo4w-trac] [osgeo4w] #874: Add Enchant C-library to OSGEO4W

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#874: Add Enchant C-library to OSGEO4W
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Reporter:  seewhy       |      Owner:  osgeo4w-dev@…
    Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
Priority:  normal       |  Component:  Package
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 Further to trying to solve a QGIS issue, I would like to request packaging
 of Enchant libraries within OSGEO4W so that it is possible to load
 pyenchant within QGIS.

 Currently pyenchant packages the libraries within its Windows version, but
 it is possible to install the package without the wheel binaries. Enchant
 looks in the system path if it can't find those binaries, so would
 presumably load them if included within the QGIS installation?

 Current pyenchant libraries conflict with GRASS (using older dlls), so if
 the packaging was done centrally I assume that this issue would be
 bypassed?

 Please see: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/59775 and
 https://github.com/pyenchant/pyenchant/issues/311#issuecomment-1678972867

 Pyenchant can be installed using MINGW so I assume it can be packaged so
 that it does not conflict with other elements:
 https://pyenchant.github.io/pyenchant/install.html#using-mingw

 Happy to help but don't know where to start...
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/874>
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