Am I doing something wrong?

[lipis]

On a clean machine I'm getting that..

...
  LIBTOOL-STATIC Release/hunspell.a
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/spellchecker/src/main.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/spellchecker/src/spellchecker_hunspell.o
  CXX(target) Release/obj.target/spellchecker/src/spellchecker_mac.o
../src/spellchecker_mac.mm:141:13: error: cannot initialize a variable of type 'NSString *' with an rvalue of type 'const NSString *'
  NSString* globalLang = currentGlobalLanguage ? currentGlobalLanguage : autoLangauge;
            ^            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../src/spellchecker_mac.mm:142:13: error: cannot initialize a variable of type 'NSString *' with an rvalue of type 'const NSString *'
  NSString* ourLang = this->spellCheckerLanguage ? this->spellCheckerLanguage : autoLangauge;
            ^         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2 errors generated.
make: *** [Release/obj.target/spellchecker/src/spellchecker_mac.o] Error 1
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:258:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:200:12)
gyp ERR! System Darwin 17.0.0
gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd /Users/lipis/work/wire/wire-desktop/electron/node_modules/spellchecker
gyp ERR! node -v v8.6.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.6.2
gyp ERR! not ok
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! spellchecker@3.3.1 install: `node-gyp rebuild`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the spellchecker@3.3.1 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/lipis/.npm/_logs/2017-10-07T13_48_25_663Z-debug.log
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! wire-desktop@ preinstall: `cd electron && npm install`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the wire-desktop@ preinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm WARN Local package.json exists, but node_modules missing, did you mean to install?

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/lipis/.npm/_logs/2017-10-07T13_48_25_699Z-debug.log

[ffflorian]

Did you recently uprade to macOS High Sierra? If yes then it seems like you need to downgrade XCode.

//edit: or upgrade spellchecker to >= 4.0.6.

[gregor]

This was fixed by updating the spellcheck dependency as part of #1009