Emacs cannot find flyspell/ispell

Question

On my Mac (Snow Leopard, 10.6.8), I\'m using a modified version of Emacs 24.2 provided here to utilize Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) from the downloads page. Emacs works, but I

Answer 1

On windows I had to do the following to start Ispell process:

1. downloaded ispell (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~dvanness/ispell.htm)
2. Unzip content in a folder that is in my path (i.e. Windows or c:\windows\system
3. download aspell (http://aspell.net/win32/)- get the full download. see the link on the page. (whether you need ispell or not, I am not sure)

4. Add the code shown below to your init.el file

5. Run aspell installer

6. Start emacs again, the error should not come up.

   (require 'package)
   (add-to-list 'package-archives
            '("MELPA Stable" . "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/") t)
   (package-initialize)
   (package-refresh-contents)
   
   (package-install 'flycheck)
   
   (global-flycheck-mode)
   
   (use-package flycheck
     :ensure t
     :init
     (global-flycheck-mode t))
   
   (setq ispell-program-name "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Aspell\\bin\\aspell.exe"
   

You many not have to do all the above but this is what worked for me on Emacs running on Windows 7.