Hi Blair and Bernd,
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:23:46 -0700
From: Blair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Compile-time language selection with
kitten, etc.
Reply-To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
I thought it would probably be very simple to write a tool which,
given an NLS strings file (e.g. MEM.DE), output a .h file with
So you're suggesting to have kitten, but also have the ability to
make
the default fallback language selectable according to a header?
Well probably selectable via something in the Makefile, i.e. maybe
we'd do something like:
make nlsbin\de.exe nlsbin\es.exe
or:
make nlsbin\mem.de nlsbin\mem.es
or:
make nlsbin\de\mem.exe nlsbin\es\mem.exe
where obviously you want to be careful that you don't confuse your
nlsbin and nls directories in that second case given that the
filenames in them are identical :)
I guess it would be good for Bernd to suggest how he would manage all
these executables which would end up with the same names in the
distributions but would obviously need different paths/names at
compile time and when he gets them from me/other developers. Maybe
the third scheme above is the most clear. You could merge the nlsbin
directories from a bunch of different tools together and then have
nlsbin\de\ full of German-language .exe's, etc., which would then just
be copied to your distribution fdos\bin directory.
I don't think there are currently any tools to create headers from a
.%lang% file.
I would be happy with some other method for doing the translation too,
this was just the idea I had. Another idea I had was to make a
pre-processor that parsed the .c file and the NLS file and substituted
the strings in, but I would prefer to avoid coding a C language parser
because it wouldn't be too hard to make it work most of the time but
I'm bound to miss some case or break when someone uses some
compiler-specific stuff.
Thanks!
David
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