Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4882216 By: simcutie
I am writing some utility program using GNUWin32 libraries, libgw32.a and libintl.lib to contribute to GNU Win32 collection. I'd like to ask some question about message catalog path handling of NLS routine bindtextdomain(pkg_name, locale_dir). How the bindtextdomain() finds message catalog directory in PC Windows environment? In Unix/Linux environment, the usual message catalog directory is semi-fixed like "/usr/share/locale" and with help of autoconf it is found at compile time. But in Win32 environment and binary distribution, the program and message catalog data may be installed anywhere in directory structures, not just "C:\Program File\Gnu Win32\share\locale\". But many GNU program that uses bindtextdomain() determines LOCALEDIR argument at compile time. So how can I cope with this problem without using autoconf and re-compile by end user? I don't want user to set NLS_PATH environment variable manually and use it as the bindtextdomain argument. Many GNU Win32 program works well with NLS without NLS_PATH set. How this problem is handled by GNU Win32 distributions? Should I read Windows registry info about GNU Win32 install path and use it or get executable path and search message catalog directories in run-time? then how about binary only ZIP distribution? Apart from this problem, is there any established convention of GNU Win32 distribution to choose package name argument of bindtextdomain()? If any, I will follow that. May I use name like "GNUWin32-supplement"? ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=74807 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
