Gettext on windows
I just thought it might be worth to keep my experience with trying to get gettext to work with windows somewhere. I tried to find a ready-to-go binary package that can be used, instead of compiling gettext from scratch ... hoping that it would save me some time.
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http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gettext.htm
With this version I can't get fprintf to work, every fprintf just crashes. Reason is that gettext supplies its own version of *printf (see gettext documentation for details). Using #undef fprintf after including libintl.h works, but I am too scared of other hidden problems.
http://freenet-homepage.de/franco.bez/gettext/gettext_win32.html
This version does not supply any LC_ constants, and I couldn't get the included examples to work - some complain about missing gettext_putenv, and I couldn't get the one example that would link to do any actual translations (though that might be a setup problem, it came with makefiles for windows, i.e. a lot of \\ and REM for comments :(
Compiling from sources
Not too much luck here either. gettext is compiled with mingw, and needs libiconv. In libiconv-1.12 some files are missing (woe32_dll), libiconv-1.11 compiles, but "make install" failed because of an undefined reference to ___cpu_features_int. I tried then to use the cygwin iconv.h file for mingw, and it compiled a bit further before failing with ".../.libs/libcroco_rpl.a" is missing - strangely enough, that file actually exists, and if I try executing link line manuall, I am back to the ___cpu_features_int - bug. I am giving up at this stage, and trying more precompiled versions.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7382
Tried first compiling gettext from source after installing libiconv from here, same results as above. So am now trying libiconv and gettext from this repository.
Outlook
Work in progress - http://www.gimp.org/win32/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwrep/, compilation from source ...
--Hiker 15:34, 27 February 2008 (PST)