[Aspell-user] dictionary locations

[Shawn Riordan]

This is probably a basic question.
But I am stumped.

How does Aspell find it's dictionaries?
I found a link to a list of dictionaries.
(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html)

and grabbed both the 5.0 and 6.0 english dictionaries.
But they gave me no hints about where to unzip them.
So, I put them in my program's debug directory.
But whenever I run my code, I get "No word lists can be found for language "en_US"".

Here is my code:

   AspellConfig *pASCnfg = new_aspell_config();

   aspell_config_replace(pASCnfg, "lang", "en_US");

   AspellCanHaveError *pASCHE = new_aspell_speller(pASCnfg);


   if(aspell_error_number(pASCHE) != 0)
   {

      // this always trips with "No word lists can be found for language "en_US""
      MessageBoxA(NULL,aspell_error_message(pASCHE),"foo",MB_OK);

   }

What am I doing wrong?
Do I need to tell Aspell where to look for the dictionaries?