Re: Gettext

[Matias Torres <torresmat gmail com>]

Tristan Van Berkom escribió:
> Matias Torres wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> > Yes, I know it's not a GTK question but i couldn't find an answer to 
> > my problem.
> >
> > After building my application (if it helps, it uses gtk), i use 
> > gettext for translating it, and, in linux it works just fine. But, 
> > talking about windows, well .. it doesn't..
> >
> > Note: Gtk Widgets DO translate, but the my own text doesn't.
> >
> > This is what i do:
> >    ......
> > #include <gtk/gtk/h>
> > #include <libintl.h>
> >    ......
> > #define PACKAGE "xiliunsystem"
> > #define LOCALEDIR "po"
> >    ......
> > void nls_init (void)
> > {
> >    /* SHOULD I CALL gtk_set_locales(), WHERE?  */
> >    setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
> >    bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
> >    textdomain (PACKAGE);
> >    bind_textdomain_codeset (PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
> > }
> >
> > int main ( ... )
> > {
> >    nls_init ();
> >    gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
> >    ....
> >    return 0;
> > }
> >
> >
> > The message catalogs are in a subfolder in the main app dir called po 
> > which looks something like this:
> >
> > myAppDir/po/es/LC_MESSAGES/
> >
> > In there there's a myapp.mo file compile with "msgfmt.EXE"
> >
> > Does anybody knows what's wrong or run into this problem?
> >
> > Please, Thanks and I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry 
> > i konw it's not a gtk question.
> >  
> A wild guess - maybe #include <glib-i18n.h> ?
>
> also, is all that stuff in nls_init() really needed ?
>
> Cheers,
>                           -Tristan



Well i found out what was happening. For initializing the gettext macros 
i used the archive that glades generates under the name of "support.h" 
with ONLY the gettext macros thought i did not use glade. 
I don not compile the traditional way (./configure make) when trying to 
port to windows because of many many problems but i compile the 
traditional traditional and more traditional way:

mingw-gcc CFLAGS ...SOURCES.... MANYLIBS(godbless pkg-config)

Because of this the ENABLE_NLS enviroment variable wasn't set when i try 
to build the sources.

Hope it helps someone. To that someone: LEARN TO USE AUTOCONF because i 
didn't and it can make you wish the computer explotes. Thanks to all 
again, good bye!