There is a new pull request by gspe against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/gspe/void-packages balsa https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27711 balsa: replace enchant with gspell It compile fine. I don't use balsa so I haven't tested the spell check but I've tested gedit that use gspell as spell checker and it works fine, so balsa also should works fine. A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/27711.patch is attached