docs/Howto_compile_lng_files_from_CLI.txt
author bjarni
Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:54:43 +0000
changeset 3311 138e38fa6fda
parent 0 29654efe3188
child 3971 77061ae9b534
permissions -rw-r--r--
(svn r4074) -Feature: [Makefile] the makefile can now detect if iconv is present in the system
if detected, WITH_ICONV will be defined in the C code
WITH_ICONV is also added to Makefile.config
OSX do not use this flag setting in Makefile.config, as it is set at compile time based on target OS version
the actual C code is not changed as the current iconv code is hardcoded for OSX and would break if any other OS got iconv
This detection system is by request of Darkvater
This is a guide to compile strgen on gcc

All this is done in the makefile, so it's only interesting for people, who wants to alter something themselves (translators)

HOWTO compile lng files:

First you get strgen compiled (look below/download nightly build/run makefile)

strgen takes the argument of a txt file and translates it to a lng file and places that lng file in the same dir as the txt file.

Example 1:
if you are in the root of your working copy (svn code), you should type
strgen/strgen lang/english.txt
to compile englist.lng. It will be placed in the lang dir

Example 2:
you have strgen but not the source and you want to compile a txt file in the same dir. YOu should type
./strgen english.txt
and you will get english.lng in the same dir

You can change english to whatever language you want

Commands used by strgen

-v --version
strgen will tell what svn revision it is based on

-t
strgen will add <TODO> to the missing strings and use the english strings while compiling
this will need english.txt to be present

-w
strgen will print any missing strings to standard error output(stderr)
this will need english.txt to be present

here are a very useful tool for translators:
http://openttd.rulez.org/


HOWTO compile strgen:
(this should be useless as you can just type make)
Goto the main dir
Compile by typing
gcc strgen/strgen.c -o strgen/strgen -DUNIX
or if you want it to tell the revision too
gcc strgen/strgen.c rev.o -o strgen/strgen -DUNIX -DWITH_REV (this is the one the makefile uses)

you now have a program called strgen in the strgen directory