Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4908090 By: keithmarshall
I've adopted a variation of Tor's technique, for associating POSIX message catalogues, (gencat --> catopen/catgets), with applications in the MinGW world. However, since message catalogues are generally specific to a particular application, I use the path to the *executable*, rather than the path to any DLL, as the point of reference. The logic I've adopted is (roughly) as follows:-- 1) Identify the executable path name, using the global _pgmptr variable. 2) Strip off the final file name component from resultant path name. 3) If the new final directory name component is either `bin' or `sbin' (ignoring case), then also strip that off. 4) Append `/share/locale' to the remaining path name. 5) Select message catalogues identified as `%L/%N' [*], within this directory tree. In any case, this logic is encapsulated within my port of `catopen()' itself, so client applications need only to arrange to install their message catalogues within a `./share/locale' subdirectory of their own installation tree, to ensure that they will be found at run time. I have a great deal of respect for Tor's insight, (he also contributes to discussions on MinGW mailing lists), and I note his comments about the use of GetModuleFileNameW(), to correctly handle Unicode path names. It may well be that my use of _pgmptr in (1) isn't sufficient. I'd certainly welcome feed back, and more so patches, should this be the case; the MinGW implementation of catgets can be found in the MinGW Project CVS, on SourceForge: http://mingw.cvs.sourceforge.net/mingw/catgets/ Regards, Keith. * Per POSIX specification, my port of catopen() uses the LC_MESSAGES or LANG environment variables to resolve the %L component of the effective NLSPATH. Since Win32 users will not typically have either of these set, I use the function call `win32_iso639_default( "LANG" )', (an implementation may be found at http://mingw.cvs.sourceforge.net/mingw/man/src/win32/winlang.c?revision=1.1&v iew=markup), in each of my applications, conditional on _WIN32, (a #define in compat.h effectively makes `win32_iso639_default( anything )' a no-op for other platforms), *before* calling catopen(). ______________________________________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
