Install pyenchant on a Windows 64-bit machine

Question

I want to install PyEnchant for spell checking and it requires enchant installed on my machine. But all the .exe files I could find were for win32 systems. Is there any other wa

Answer 1

Going to leave this here for anyone who comes across it. There is a prebuilt 64-bit version of libenchant which is included in GIMP. By installing it and adding the libraries into your path, you can build pyenchant on a 64-bit version of Python.

First install GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

From the CMD prompt either globally or within your Venv add the GIMP library location to your PATH

SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\bin

Then install pyenchant

pip install pyenchant

Hope this helps.