1 This is a guide to compile strgen on gcc

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

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     5 HOWTO compile lng files:

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

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     9 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.

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    11 Example 1:

    12 if you are in the root of your working copy (svn code), you should type

    13 strgen/strgen lang/english.txt

    14 to compile englist.lng. It will be placed in the lang dir

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    16 Example 2:

    17 you have strgen but not the source and you want to compile a txt file in the same dir. YOu should type

    18 ./strgen english.txt

    19 and you will get english.lng in the same dir

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    21 You can change english to whatever language you want

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    23 Commands used by strgen

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    25 -v --version

    26 strgen will tell what svn revision it is based on

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    28 -t

    29 strgen will add <TODO> to the missing strings and use the english strings while compiling

    30 this will need english.txt to be present

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    32 -w

    33 strgen will print any missing strings to standard error output(stderr)

    34 this will need english.txt to be present

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    36 here are a very useful tool for translators:

    37 http://openttd.rulez.org/

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    40 HOWTO compile strgen:

    41 (this should be useless as you can just type make)

    42 Goto the main dir

    43 Compile by typing

    44 gcc strgen/strgen.c -o strgen/strgen -DUNIX

    45 or if you want it to tell the revision too

    46 gcc strgen/strgen.c rev.o -o strgen/strgen -DUNIX -DWITH_REV (this is the one the makefile uses)

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    48 you now have a program called strgen in the strgen directory